Mention video and quite a few SB die hards go ballistic. The rationale might be that it would divert focus from amending and extending the current products, which of course is a valid concern. My take on this is that SBS could very well be the most capable server for music. It's obvious that a lot of thought and work has gone into design and implementation, and despite the recent palaver after 7.4.x it generally does a pretty good job of it. As has been pointed out there's a big difference in how people use network audio devices and network video devices, even when accounting for live TV which may be streamed over the local network (e.g. from Myth backend to frontend). But in my mind, any server complex enough to handle the size and diversity of a large music library would not find it particularly taxing to handle a normal size video library. The point of my long windedness is that I think SBS could easily extend to handle video, and that I for one would like to have such a server. An Atom based linux box running SqueezeOS with hardware accelerated video decoding should make for a competent output device with a neat UI. Not that it would ever replace my dedicated audio Squeezebox for listening to music, that's not the point. Just that I think the SB ecosystem is flexible and powerful enough to support more than just audio.
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