On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:54:28PM -0400, John Turner wrote: > On Aug 1, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Owen Berry wrote: > >Sorry to hijack this thread (seems to have run out for now anyway), > >but > >I was wondering if there were any thoughts on using the Linksys NSLU2 > >and Debian (or other Linux based firmware replacements) to build a > >networked DVR. > > > >The one sticking point that I can see is the video output. It looks > >like > >you can get a USB to s-video cable, although they seem to be aimed at > >capturing video to a PC, not the other way around. Maybe there are > >more > >promising solutions out there. > > > >Any thoughts? Other devices out there that would be more suitable? > > > >Thanks. > > > >-- Owen > > > > Well I read lots of posts on media servers, but have never seen > anyone using one of the storage devices for the recording part. > Buffalo makes one also. > You can go here http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=39 > to read about many of them and how people are using them. There are > ports of some of the streaming media player software that works on > many of these also. > > Many people use the hardware media players for playback (front end > machines in Myth terms) and a PC or Mac for recording. This is the > route I am taking using a Mac for recording and serving the media > files and it looks like the IO-Data LinkPlayer2 for the clients. > > John >
I guess what I really want is a device that has a big hard drive, can output video for playback on a TV, and can participate in a network. Preferably it would take a wireless network card. The recording side of things is not so important. Putting together a cheap (but reliable) PC with a video card that has a TV-out port, running some form of Linux, seems one of the better options because it is so flexible, except that I want something quieter humming away in my living room. If it was more like a device it would be even better. This one looks interesting ... but isn't out yet, and I don't need all the extras that will probably drive the price up. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2695151209.html http://www.mediabolic.com/products/nmp.html -- Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
