I would like to convert a 10 year old satellite setupbox + DVR into a media player as it has a 160 GB HDD with a USB and Ethernet port. Has anyone did this sort of thing? Perhaps by installing Debian for MIPS? The Broadcom BCM7453 is a 300 Mhz MIPS system-on-chip with support for MPEG-4 and dolby digital decoding. Linux kernel for this seems to be available: Set-top box Linux (BCM7xxx) - kernel.org baseline - https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux-3.8/tree/master/linux
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