Lee, Thanks for all the info., I am building and want to do some of what you are suggesting, I don't understand a tenth of it, but Apple rules in this house and if I can get done what you are imply then I need to find the back end solution. If you have more to share keep it coming.
Many thanks, John R. On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> I am not familiar with the Tivo, but hear it costs $10.00 a month for >> 100 hours of copying, the other DVR using Dish is supposed to only >> cost $ 5.00. Is there no way just to pay for how much you would copy? >> I am in the lookout for one of those, too, because i want to add this >> German Channel and only Dish TV has it. - I am dreaming of that new >> little mac- mini, a flat screen with dish input for my German TV and >> a DVR attached as well. Does that sound ok? or am I way out here? or >> do I have brainrot? > > I don't know about the brainrot. > > The Mac Mini is of limited use within a video system because there's > no way to poke a tuner inside it. You can use an external USB or > Firewire tuner, but then you're getting back to the problem of many > boxes with spaghetti all over the place. > > My idea was that I could use it for a front end machine. > > The MythTV machine I built does all the Tivo-like stuff (and more), > and contains both a back end and a front end. The back end software is > responsible for grabbing the video off the cable and encoding it to > the hard drive. The front end software shows the canned video on the > TV screen. The back end software can also send video over the network > to any other front end running on a different machine. > > The Mac Mini would make a nice little machine to put in the family > room with the front end software. It could grab the video off the back > end machine, which could be anywhere in the house. It wouldn't make a > very good back end machine because of the inelegant tuner solutions. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
