On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:25, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:42, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:18, Joshua Lewis wrote: > > > I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 > > > satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. > > > I want desperately to consolidate my house. > > > > Have read that many people utilize X-Box systems as frontend systems. > > These connect to the backend system to pull recordings. Not sure if > > there are any limitations on such an X-Box frontend. > > > > I've been looking at putting together a diskless frontend system using > > small form factor motherboard but have not spent enough time to pick out > > the right mother board yet. > > the Xbox can not handle raw HD MPEG-TS streams. But for standard definition > TV > I've found it to be perfect. It is also able to handle what are termed > "hr.hdtv" XviD encodes. Which is a 1/2 res full AC3 audio encode of HDTV > shows. They're popular in "the scene" and a great way to archive HDTV shows > in a small file size with near equal quality. > > as for other options, there is a device called Roku, which can handle HDTV > MPEG2 streams and standard def. TV. The MythTV build for it is still in > inafancy though, but it promises to be a great, cheap frontend ($300). >
Been sorting through the options available using one of the EPIA boards. Trying to find one that has s-video output and mpeg2 decoding that can handle shows recorded using PVR cards. > > I'm also going to add that there are some recent posts concerning LVM's and > RAID that you'll want to search gossamer for. You look to be building a > rather large file server into your backend, and at this point these are your > best bets. I'm trying to see if the dev's will entertain the idea of having > more than one recordings directory that would allow for all this to be much > easier. My main backend system had four 300GB drives with one LVM group setup as a 1TB file system which I use for recordings. At this point I did not bother with raid. If a drive fails I lose the recordings.
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