I am doing something similar. I have two TiVo's that I use for encoding, these go in the closet. The nice thing about the TiVo is that it only draws about 20 watts each. Any garden variety PC (capable of encoding) draws easily about 90 watts.
I then use front ends on each of my TVs (currently a mix of ITX and PCs) for streaming. My hope is to go all ITX front ends, once they are capable of DVD decode (20 watts and capable of streaming from either TiVos or servers). BTW - MythTV currently supports the concept of front ends (players) and back ends (encoders). > > 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
