This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: > so how does the setup work, does mythtv transcode everything to mpeg2 ?
DVB-t (digital terrestrial) is already MPEG-2, so I doubt he bothers transcoding anything. > I am currently using an xbox with xbmc on it, works well, except for the > newer mp4 (h264) file, then there doesn't seem to be enough horse power > to handle it. These kind of fanless machines don't tend to have enough grunt for anything other than the formats they support. There _are_ chipsets that do the algorithms needed for the mp4/xvid generation of codecs, but I believe none of the boards are supported under Linux. Since this is a bit of a show-and-tell, my setup. I bought an IBM dual 1 gig Xeon server off eBay for a couple of hundred bucks. That's my backend, running Debian, with a terrabyte of SATA drives in it for storage of video. Three capture cards, two PCI random ones I bought from Dick Smith, another is a Freecom USB one. Frontend is a fanless Via EPIA ME6000 with half a gig of RAM. OS is Minimyth that boots from CF (http://minimyth.org/) and remote is a StreamZap. At some point I'll buy a shiny new HD telly, in which case I may upgrade the front end to something that needs fans, but I'll stick it in the same cupboard as the server and run DVI either direct or over the Cat6 to the lounge room. Unfortunately the whole setup is out of action right now, pending running cables under and around the new house. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
