I would like to be able to watch live tv on my chumby.
I have a linux box running vdr with streamdev plugin [ http://streamdev.vdr-developer.org/ ]
The plugin allows real-time stream transcoding via external scripts and also supports http streaming.

Unfortunately, according to wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLV#Delivery_options ], real-time flash streaming is only possible using proprietary RTMP protocol.

It seems at this point the only way to accomplish my goal is to compile mplayer for chumby.
I tried compiling using Debian on QEMU [ http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php ]
but the resulting binary produces only cracking noise.

Is there anyone who was able to compile mplayer for chumby ?