I have an media box featuring a xp1800 (or 1900 I dont remember) which I have actually underclocked. I will not be doing any transcoding on this box. It sports 512 mb ram and a compact flash 32mb card used via an ide adaptor. This contains the kernel and boot loader, everything else is pulled from a file server. I use a Matrox Marvel G400 for tvout usinf DirectFB. My sound card is an RME DIGI 96/8 PAD. For IR I'm using an IRMAN. I have successfully used this box to play audio and video files. I have ripped audio but only outside of freevo as yet. I am not currently looking at video recording, but have ripped dvd s without transcoding (again outside of freevo)
I have a file server for all media which uses NFS rather than SAAMBA. It contains an 1TB Raid5 array and uses a 1.3ghz celleron to provide software raid5. I wanted a lot of space as I'm looking for very high quality media. I will not be using lossy audio compression and at the moment am storing dvd as mpeg2 rather than Divx. This is a pretty long answer to your question, but the thing is everyone does it differently. It depends on your budget, aims and the comproises you are prepared to make. I strongly suggest you make your choices carefully. Think about noise, price, heat and long term goals. If you will have a file server I suggest you think about net booting. I think one of my best decisions was to make the media box diskless. Mark On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:00:21 -0400 "Shane Crosby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been wanting to build a freevo for a while, and I've finally secured a > machine to dedicate to it. > > So far it has: > > Pentium 4 2GHz > 256MB RAM > > That's it. So this machine is essentially an empty canvas for me to work > with. What I would like to do is build the best possible freevo for the > lowest possible price. > > The machine will be outfitted with a 160GB drive. > > What are your suggestions for TV Card, Video Out card, DVD Drive, RS232 > remote, and anything else I'll need? > > Also, will 256MB be enough memory? > > My ideal setup will be a machine with remote control, DVD playback support > and a huge Mp3 collection mounted over samba. > > Thanks in advance! I'm looking forward to building this as soon as I can > afford the parts. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add MSN 8 Internet Software to your existing Internet access and enjoy > patented spam protection and more. Sign up now! > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/byoa > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
