| dc.description.abstract | With the development of telecommunication、television broadcast and internet service, digital home is gaining more and more importance in recent days. The concept of digital home is focus on digitalization of appliances and integration of all digital electronic products through the internet. It emphasizes that the members of the family use various home appliances and personal electronic equipment to make life more convenience and safety and even enjoy better entertainment experience through digital and network technologies in any place, at anytime.
Now the application of digital home is based on entertainment as a pilot and around the periphery of the television. And with digital audio-visual products and digital content growth, we need a specific device to access and transmit with others. The device that we so-called is media center. The main function of media center is centralizing and connecting other consumer electronics devices or digital products. We can do general entertainment by the media center, such as TV recording and playback, DVD playing, video playback, recording and editing, picture view, music listening and games playing. And we can transmit and access digital content to other digital devices by its I/O, such as USB, 1394, RJ45, and network device. In addition, it has its own storage media can store a large quantity of digital contents, and unified management. Therefore, the requirement of the media center is more and more and it plays an important role in the digital home now. This paper is a part of the media center project, and we will introduce our work that implement a media center system over Intel OloRiver. | en_US |