MelonMonkey;483578 Wrote: > I was talking about the front end, that's why I said "decode" - analog > capture cards or tuner sticks that don't have built-in MPEG2 or H.264 > encoders should not be considered by anyone at any price for any reason. > For digital there's no encoding necessary as the cards are just > recording what they're receiving (clear-QAM, ATSC, DVB, etc..) > > > > $500 is a ton of cash to spend on a front end, especially when you may > want 3 or 4 of them. The ION platform was promising this for under $200 > and that's what all the Myth fans were raving about. Solutions using a > SoC offer sub $200 completely fanless ability today. > > The "free" solutions (Myth) actually cost more than the commercial in > many setups.
As long as your not fussed about live TV, it is possible to integrate your MythTV backend server with the Sigma chip layers acting as frontends via the likes of Samba, NFS and UPNP. You get the best of both worlds then: the flexibility of MythTV, with cheap, low power and reliable frontends. The Hauppauge MVP is another option for a very cheap frontend for SDTV, but a bit more challenging to set up and more limiting with video formats. -- david_f1976 Living Room: SB3 -> Musical Fidelity X-DAC V3 -> Marantz PM-66SE --> Tannoy Profile 631SE Bedroom: Boom Dave www.last.fm/user/david_f1976 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ david_f1976's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15354 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
