On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking at the wide range of standalone media players now on > display in the shops > > Their key benefits: compact, low power/fanless, inexpensive, fully > integrated UI with remote control > > As far as the architecture of home multi-media is concerned, an emerging > scenario involves > - content (e.g. movies) stored on a home NAS or a device such as the HP > N36L Microserver (which has 4 drive bays and gigabit), > - the decoding/playback functions performed by these low profile media > player boxes attached to each TV > > Does Freevo aim to address this use-case at the moment, e.g. acting as a > back-end DVR and serving content to dedicated media players, and is > anyone doing any work in this area? Are any of the media players > `Freevo friendly', e.g. able to use Freevo as a DVR? > > Regards, > > Daniel >
As I understand it, Freevo doesn't really have a "backend" so to speak. The GUI is mainly a front end to load up movies in Xine or MPlayer. As for recording, I would guess that would really depend on how you have that setup and what format it records in. I wouldn't see that Freevo really needs a backend to serve up content. My suggestion would be to go with one of the media boxes that support a wide variety of formats and NFS or SMB shares, like the WD TV Live or the Logitech Revue (among others). The way I have my home network setup is one central server with multiple hard drives in RAID configuration with the directory that contains my media files shared out both via Samba and NFS to the local network. In some rooms, I have old computers with Freevo setup that NFS mount the directory from the central server and play the files. In other rooms, devices like a WD Live Plus uses the Samba share to index and play the files. I'm not sure if this 100% answers your question, but hopefully it might help. Preston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
