The DM500 features 32 MiB of RAM and an unspecified amount of flash memory, probably 8 MB, given that firmware images are about 5 MiB. It is based around an IBM STBx25xx Digital Set-Top Box Integrated Controller, featuring notably a 252 MHz PowerPC processor subsystem, hardware MPEG-2 video and audio decoding and smart card interfaces. The DM500 is the successor to the DM5620 and is the smallest and cheapest Dreambox. The numbers are suffixed with -S for Satellite, -T for Terrestrial and -C for Cable: Table DM There have been a number of different models of Dreambox available. The speed of the USB port is not specified, the manufacturer only says it is of B type, the one found on peripherals connected to PCs.
In 2007, Dream Multimedia also introduced a non-Linux based Dreambox receiver, the DM100, their sole to date, running on unspecified hardware, but still featuring an Ethernet port and a USB port. Unlike many PC based PVR systems that use free-to-air type of DVB receiver cards, the built-in conditional access allows receiving and storing encrypted content. It also enables the receiver to store digital copies of DVB MPEG transport streams on Network file systems or broadcast the streams as IPTV to VideoLAN and XBMC Media Center clients.
The built-in Ethernet interface allows networked computers to access the recordings on the internal hard disks on some Dreambox models. All units support Dream's own DreamCrypt conditional access (CA) system, with software-emulated CA Modules (CAMs) available for many alternate CA systems. Its firmware is officially user-upgradable, since it is a Linux-based computer, as opposed to third-party "patching" of alternate receivers. The Dreambox shares the basic design of the DBox2, including the Ethernet port and the PowerPC processor. The bankruptcy of KirchMedia flooded the market with unsold boxes available for Linux enthusiasts. The Dbox2 was a proprietary design distributed by KirchMedia for their pay TV services.
#Dreambox storage alternatives software#
2.4 DM 500 (discontinued), DM 500+, DM500HDĮnigma2, the Linux-based production software used by Dreambox was originally developed for DBox2, by the Tuxbox project.
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