Chris & Kevin, thanks for your feedback it's been very informative. Just to respond to a couple of points. It's just a test setup, so I plan to run a few hundred hours of recordings through the system at different resolutions to see how they perform.
Kevin, we currently have a setup with Mac minis and external VGA2USB epiphan devices. The amount of cabling can get pretty irritating, especially when we go from HDMI to the capture unit. So an all-in-one box would be appealing. If we procure in the UK the slightly odd UK / EU rules regarding warranties will protect us beyond the first year, but it's not exactly the same as 3 year coverage. 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 On 14 Jun 2012, at 21:18, Kevin Chan wrote: > 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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