A vendor of Linux-based home entertainment servers has announced that its flagship product now supports an inexpensive media adapter. Interact-TV says its Telly server supports the $200 Slim Devices Squeezebox, a small, WiFi-enabled gadget that uses a number of open source software… packages.

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Interact-TV's newest Telly is a convergent media server that can store and manage libraries of digital music, photos, and videos (including DVDs), and pause and record live TV.

The Slim Devices Squeezebox is a deeply embedded system built around a home-grown real-time operating system (RTOS) running on a 16-bit microcontroller, along with hardware DSPs (digital signal processors). It offers wired and wireless network interfaces, to add “WiFi to your HiFi,” according to the company. In addition to analog RCA and headphone mini-jack audio outputs, it includes both SP/DIF and coaxial digital outputs.

Although based on a homegrown RTOS, the Squeezebox makes use of a number of open source software packages, and it provides support for file formats that include MP3, WMA, AAC, Apple Lossless, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and uncompressed WAV or AIFF audio. The Squeezebox also supports shoutcast Internet radio streams. One interesting feature is the claimed ability to “synchronize multiple players for whole house audio.”

“SlimServer software allows Telly owners to access their music wherever they are,” said Ken Fuhrman, CEO of Interact-TV.

For more information about the Telly, be sure to see our complete Device Profile of the latest Telly model.

 
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