Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt)– Century Embedded Technologies today announced an enhanced version of the Linux4.TV complete open-source set-top box solution, created by partner, National Semiconductor. Linux4.TV version 1.1.0 is available for download immediately and provides support for National's Geode SP1SC10 demonstration and development platform, along with extended functionality for… the newly announced Embedded Linux Journal Contest. New ELJ contest hardware will be made available in early April to finalists.

The enhanced software utilizes more set-top box hardware functionality and includes support for local MPEG file playback, DVD playback, streaming video across the network, and VIP capture. In addition, closed captioning, NTSC and PAL formats, alpha blended graphics/video, volume/mute control and IR mouse/keyboard support are included. Source code with full documentation is available for download now at www.linux4.tv.

The software enhancement continues to use WebMedia, Century's set-top box front end application that provides HTML-specified video middleware programming, and National's implementation of the Video 4 Linux (V4L2) API supporting the rich feature set of the Geode SC1200 processor. The hardware and software reference platforms provide an ideal development environment for manufacturers seeking to design advanced capabilities into a set-top box, including video-on-demand, streaming video, and interactive TV broadcast services.

The Linux4.TV web site was launched in August 2001 and is dedicated to supporting Linux developers and promoting open-source projects for Interactive TV and Advanced Digital Set-Top Box technologies.

 
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