Well, I was hedging my bet. I also posted it in avsforum too :-) Finally got a reply from someone in avsforum who is running overclocked slug with wizd and streaming HD (high definition) contents to his Snazio HD dvd player.
I saw your USB ATSC tuner post earlier. I'm currently running HD3000 and DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite in my box. My main goal is to offload the recorded programs (after they are commercial_cut and transcoded to mpeg4) from the mythbox to the slug. There I'll run wizd and stream it to IOData LinkPlayer2 (LP2). I don't know if slug will be able to run complete mythbackend. It may be too big for its tiny 64mb sdram (unless you fatten it). Presently, I run wizd on my linux box to stream the contents to the LP2. With slug in picture, I can store all my programs on multiple external hard drives and let the slug become the uPnP media server. Hopefully, will save some wear/tear/electricity on the mythbox. Now I need to buy a slug and an external hard drive. On 12/8/05, Alan Hagge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mudit Wahal wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Has anyone successfully used NSLU2 stream recordings off the external > >USB 2.0 hard drive ? > >I'm thinking to use NSLU2 as nfs mounted external storage device to > >keep my recordings. Then just use softlinks from machines to stream > >the SD and HD contents. > > > >I'll be installing OpenSlug or UnSlung on it. > > > >I'm more worried that if it has enough horse power and memory to run a > >mini http server, some perl cgi and also stream video at a sustained > >rate of atleast 20-25Mbps at the same time. I'm willing to overclock > >it to 266mhz (nail clipper method seems good). > > > > > I noticed you'd posted a similar question on the NSLU2-Linux Yahoo > groups; hopefully you'll get an answer there, if not here. I too am > interested in using a slug, but I want to take it even further, to try > to use the slug as a mythbackend (using a USB 2.0-based ATSC tuner) to > have it record directly to an attached external USB 2.0 disk. I'd asked > about USB-based ATSC tuners on this list a couple of weeks ago, but > apparently nobody's working with them yet. So I suspect I'm about a > year premature. But I can hope. > > From what I've been reading, de-underclocking the CPU to 266MHz is > definitely a good idea. I think the biggest issue (for me, anyway) is > the lack of RAM in the box 32 MB isn't much, and my soldering skills > definitely aren't up to adding piggyback RAM. Too bad Linksys hasn't > noticed the community support for this unit and made a more expensive > unit that adds extra RAM and maybe gig-e and/or 802.11g wireless, just > for the hacker community. > > Good luck & keep us informed on your progress. I'm hoping Santa has a > slug in his bag for me... ;-) > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
