FWIW, I'm running a Zbox (zotac, atom) with mythbuntu as a frontend to a
1080p TV via hdmi. I expect that the model with the amd fusion cpu would
do just as we, if not slightly better from what I've read. You can get a
MB (mini or micro) with the fusion CPU on it for less than $100 if you
hunt around (I got a mini MSI board with Fusion for $65 after rebate).
Ram is relatively cheap for these as well. FWIW, I even run mine off an
8G flash drive. Works like a champ. I also have a MythTV backend (also
mythbuntu) I built with an old P4, 512M, 2x300G drives for storage, and
2 tuner cards. This runs off a 4G flash drive. You really don't need
much horsepower on a backend. Transcoding and commercial flagging do
take a bit of cpu, but if you're not in a hurry for it, who cares? The
P4 just cranks it out a little slower, but this doesn't affect feeding
the front ends. (I also have installed a mythtv frontend on my deskbook).
Good stuff.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
On 06/22/2012 09:10 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
I've tried dnla-based stuff with my xbox360 for tv, but found it was
more hassle than it was worth as m$ doesn't support decent codecs for
playback anyways. Can your tv actually dnla high-res media? For me if
not, it's kind of a why-bother.
With the 360 being useless for high-def playback, I built an ubuntu
"media pc" with an hdmi nvidia card, xbmc, and never looked back. Until
it died at least.
I got a boxee box, and that could do netflix, 1080p mkv playback,
cifs/nfs, and just about everything in between, and was pretty decent.
At least until an update a week ago bricked it. grr.
Sadly I don't think hardware vendors "get it" to make actual playback
function openly supporting varieties of codecs, but dnla was a start.
What kind of tv is yours?
More interesting is they're hacking the "smart" tv's now, though not
sure if their hardware would actually support decent playback of
anything but codecs cut off at the knees to protect media cartels and
not anger them. Having root hopefully takes back control of what amounts
to a lightweight linux box on just about every modern smart tv, just add
xbmc and some hardware gpu offloading. I would ass-u-me they have some
level of hardware decode on them, so let the games begin.
http://hackaday.com/2012/06/20/getting-root-on-a-sony-tv/
http://www.samygo.tv/
Sadly I bought an lcd the year before smart tv's became the rage, so I'm
stuck with external hardware via hdmi. Now if i could find one that
didn't die/suck.
-mb
On 06/22/2012 12:57 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote:
For that setup i used mediatomb. It is a ver simple program that says it
can do transcoding but I was unable to do it. I think debian has it in
the repos, but if not pretty easy to compile. One it is set up and the
config file has the correct info in regards to databases (it can us
mysql or sqlit as the back end) the the rest is through a web interface.
Nadim Hoque
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From: Mark Phillips
Sent: 6/22/2012 12:24
To: Phoenix Linux Users
Subject: Looking for Streaming Media Software Recommendations
I have a underused Debian headless server, a network enabled DLNA TV,
so.....why not stream some movies to this TV? I am looking for
recommendations for a streaming media server that will run on a headless
Debian server.
Thanks!
Mark
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