I use an Xbox for that. It isn't silent but I did replace the almost 80mm fan with a quieter 80mm fan (took a little bit of dremel tooling) and the fan is now quieter than the larger HD I put in it. Used xboxes can be had for ~ $100 and the older ones are much easier to modify for running linux. I've been looking for something else, but its tough to find a solution that is silent, has enough power to decode mpeg 4, and doesn't cost a bundle.
Josh On 8/1/05, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/1/05, Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > How about the Hauppage Media MVP? > http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm > It's small, quiet, and even runs linux so you can set it up > as a mythtv frontend. :-) Then, just setup a big box in the > closet with as many tuners as you want and lots of hard disks > and you're set. You could even use multiple ones of these > all accessing the same backend to drive multiple TVs in your > house. > > Cheers, > Tanner > -- > Tanner Lovelace > clubjuggler at gmail dot com > http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ > (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an > increscent, all sable. > -- > 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 > -- 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
