Stuart,
For the purposes of doing just a screen grab, I think any small
enclosure that can run Ubuntu (most everything) should be fine. You
don't really need a PCI slot as you can always go with an external
VGA2USB device. This is basically what Cape Town (Dell Optiplex 780
Ultra Small Form Factor - correct me if I got it wrong) is already doing
in production.
The caveat (beyond pricing and size of the box) with any vendor (even
the giant ones like Dell) are reliability and warranty support, so
choose carefully (i.e., 1 year warranty on the Logisys system - and I
honestly have never heard of them).
Kevin Chan
Operations Team
Educational Technology Services
UC Berkeley
On 6/14/12 12:55 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote:
Stuart,
This looks like an interesting box. We tried some of these enclosures,
as well as the LCD versions: http://www.mini-box.com/Mini-Box-M300
They were nice in that they were cheap, had active cooling, etc. Pico
PSU works nicely. The enclosure is cheap though in the way it snaps
together.
I liked the look of these but, as seems to be normal, there is no PCI
riser slot:
http://www.mini-box.com/VoomPC-2-Car-PC-Barebone-Intel?sc=8&category=1129
Same deal with this one, and this is the configuration that I was
interested in doing vesa-mount:
http://resources.mini-box.com/online/SYS-M350-IntelD2500HN/moreimages/M350-Universal-Mini-ITX-enclosure-b6.jpg
http://www.mini-box.com/Mini-Box-M350-Barebone-System
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:20:05 +0100
Stuart Phillipson<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm planning on testing a few capture agents over the summer with a
view to compare features, reliability and cost. As I'm testing anyway
I thought it would be worth running a self-build capture agent along
side to see how it performs. I'm only interested in capturing the
VGA / DVI output from the presentation PC and a small form factor
would be convenient. So has anyone out there already tried to build
small size capture agents and if so I'd like to hear about your
experiences. For reference I'm thinking of something like this with
an epiphan capture card:
https://logisysus.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=561
It wouldn't necessary need to be fanless, I'm just after something I
can bolt to a desk without taking up too much space.
Stuart Phillipson | Digital Media Projects Coordinator
Room 1.83 Simon Building
University of Manchester
Brunswick Street
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 016130 60478
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