Turn a DD-WRT router (with a USB port) into an internet media server (similar to PogoPlug)?

Audio clients based on an openwrt router platform have been listed by hackaday. Com before (example: first link below). But I haven't seen one for video other then the recent one using a Samsung monitor (as a terminal/monitor) which has a built in USB/Video-dongle-thingy.

I've got one of those USB/Video dongle things and while it is great at adding a 2nd monitor w/o opening up your PC, it does not play video worth a darn (maybe 2 to 4 frames a second update rate? ). So, music, yes.

But you may have to come up w/your own client software. I haven't used it recently, but there are years of open source effort that has poured into Logitec's PERL based Squeeze-Center (aka Slim-Server). Creating a client is a moderate task.

Oh, that's right, you wanted to be autonomous from a server. Hum, I think once you get into this you will change your mind (Squeeze-Center uses mySQL to organize your music. Hardly something you could do in openWRT).

But that's a different subject. For video, I don't think it will be practical. I'm thinking by the time you add the hardware you might as well have built a small computer.

And, at that point, I would install Mythtv (which sounds like it addresses most if not all your needs) instead of trying to use openWRT. There are a box full of off the shelf media players that may satisfy your needs. They are based on SigmaDesign (Chinese) media chips built around a common processor (an Arm processor?).

They are not much liked in the open source community. Even though the OS is Linux, SigmaDesign has not published enough information to allow open source efforts. You can find these chips in everything from LightOn DVD players to Netgear Media boxes.

In general I think their software is lacking (i.e. Don't expect the iPod experience. Not even close.

). But it does sound like the features you want are in there.(Kind of like, yes a Yugo is a car (FYI: second link below)).(As I'm making fun of a failed gas-efficient-small-car of the 90's, I remind my self what the recently announced X prize winner ($5*10^6) runs on - gas (FYI:third link below)). Ok, I'll stop now.

Audio clients based on an openwrt router platform have been listed by hackaday. Com before (example: first link below). But I haven't seen one for video other then the recent one using a Samsung monitor (as a terminal/monitor) which has a built in USB/Video-dongle-thingy.

I've got one of those USB/Video dongle things and while it is great at adding a 2nd monitor w/o opening up your PC, it does not play video worth a darn (maybe 2 to 4 frames a second update rate? ). So, music, yes.

But you may have to come up w/your own client software. I haven't used it recently, but there are years of open source effort that has poured into Logitec's PERL based Squeeze-Center (aka Slim-Server). Creating a client is a moderate task.

Oh, that's right, you wanted to be autonomous from a server. Hum, I think once you get into this you will change your mind (Squeeze-Center uses mySQL to organize your music. Hardly something you could do in openWRT).

But that's a different subject. For video, I don't think it will be practical. I'm thinking by the time you add the hardware you might as well have built a small computer.

And, at that point, I would install Mythtv (which sounds like it addresses most if not all your needs) instead of trying to use openWRT. There are a box full of off the shelf media players that may satisfy your needs. They are based on SigmaDesign (Chinese) media chips built around a common processor (an Arm processor?).

They are not much liked in the open source community. Even though the OS is Linux, SigmaDesign has not published enough information to allow open source efforts. You can find these chips in everything from LightOn DVD players to Netgear Media boxes.

In general I think their software is lacking (i.e. Don't expect the iPod experience. Not even close.

). But it does sound like the features you want are in there.(Kind of like, yes a Yugo is a car (FYI: second link below)).(As I'm making fun of a failed gas-efficient-small-car of the 90's, I remind my self what the recently announced X prize winner ($5*10^6) runs on - gas (FYI:third link below)). Ok, I'll stop now...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.