Chris, I had been thinking along those lines regarding the micro drive / flash solution, but I was unsure of repeated read/writes to CF for logs etc, hence the micro-drive. I also have a file server for my media; this will soon be updated to a 1TB NAS solution (just got to work out how to get it thru the door and installed without the missus noticing ;¬) )so storage not really an issue, although I am curious as to the 'best' way to access network shares. I currently mount the shares using NFS and amend the Freevo configuration; does Freevo support direct access to them or must they be mounted?
I have a micro atx board in a very nice Silverstone Lascala LC11 case and have had no issues with playback of DVD (discs or files) or TV so I am pretty happy with the hardware side and I have a Blueyonder TV Drive PVR so don't intend to utilize any TV recording. I might be a bit biased regarding distro, as I am used to Slackware I didn't really look at any others, but I'm sure there would be a huge discussion on the best distro for the job, so I'm not going to go there !! Hadn't heard of Freepia, so I'll be checking that out later. Ashley. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Thomas Sent: 11 September 2006 19:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. The key ingredient in my stand-alone freevo box is an EPIA ME6000 mini-itx motherboard. This board has mpeg2 decoding built-in, so dvd playback will be smooth without any additional hardware. The next step is storage. Where will you save the system and where will you save your media. I chose to save my media on a seperate file server, thus eliminating the amount of noise coming from my freevo box. I then installed Gentoo along with Xorg, Freevo, Lirc, etc... on it using a standard hard drive. I configured everything just the way I wanted it (including booting straight into Freevo). http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/BootFreevo I then copied the image of the hard drive to a compact flash card. Using a CF-IDE adapter I was able to boot directly from the card and mount my media over the network. My setup isn't perfect, but I'm waiting for Freevo 2.0 until I make any big changes. Using Debian and mounting the system read-only would be 2 improvements. You can follow Karl's advice and use a fancy bootsplash to get add some eye candy. Also, check out Freepia: http://freepia.shaibn.com Hope this helps. -Chris On 9/11/06, Karl Lattimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ashley, > > You mentioned pretty boot process; > > http://www.bootsplash.org/ > > Try that, suse have been using it for a while, you can do things like > animations (fbmngplay) and progress bars using it, and its not as bulky > as RHGB. > > as far as hardware is concerned a good UK provider is > > https://linitx.com/ > > I could probably help out with building a distribution especially for > freevo... Are you going to linux from scratch it? I personally would > prefer to build it out of a seriously trimmed down redhat/fedora or > ubuntu. I don't have a great deal of time however with the projects I'm > currently involved in. > > The advantage of fedora is anaconda which can be used to build a > bootable install disc from whatever packages are on an installed system. > The advantage of ubuntu is the live CD aspect. > > I also have some SVGs of the freevo logo and a device I did a while back > which unfortunately I've still not managed to complete a website with. > > K, > > PS. Where abouts in the UK are you? > > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:47 +0100, Ashley Dawkins wrote: > > Hi Evan, still not going as I would like, but not had as much time as I > > would like to experiment further :¬( Still interested in any information > > regarding a standalone solution, especially a nice looking process to boot > > directly into Freevo. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Ashley. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey > > Sent: 09 September 2006 19:10 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. > > > > Ashley- > > How is the project coming? > > Evan > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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