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by fancy_pantser 3811 days ago
For existing audio hardware there are projects like http://www.rockbox.org that are minimalistic firmware replacements that you can hack on. On the video side I can't think of anything similar to DVD firmware that's open source but that sounds like what you're looking for. I've attempted a few slimmed down Linux distros for the Raspberry Pi and alternative OSes that can play back media. Things to check out would be: RISC OS, OpenElec, PiCore, PiPlay, Minibian...