Yes and no. The Mini-ITX board could still have a tuner card for live viewing and time shifting. The timeshifiting would use the stream format of the tuner and no conversion would take place. The CPU would only have to handle the GUI and live video. The other alternative, as you mentioned, is to keep all tuners in a remote machine using the "head" just for GUI stuff.
Just think. Someone could make some money using this setup. A peson buys a "head" unit. They then also buy as many "recording" units as they want. Plug and play functionality. The recorded videos could reside on any of the recording units but the whole system would look like one big filesystem. With one head and two recording units, you can view/timeshift live tv while also recording two other distinct channels. ~Rob -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Anybody using a Shuttle PC with freevo? On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 19:49, Robert Wohleb wrote: > The real power of the Mini-ITX boards comes from the fact that they are quiet, > small, and low power. If recording could be stripped out to a separate machine > stored in a closet then you'll have a much quieter home theater experience. > Personnaly, one reason I don't just go with a Tivo is that it can only record one > channel at a time. With Freevo coming along as nicely as it is, my plan is to have a > powerful file server capable of recording from as many channels as I have tuner > cards. I can't imagine having such a machine in my living room. Thats an interesting idea. If I understand you correctly, you want to put the tv-tuner cards into the computer in the closet, right? (And stream it to the 'display' computer in the living room) regards, Andreas ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
