[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M as a tiny frontend

[Per Åge Sørvik]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2004, at 1:21 AM, Per Åge Sørvik wrote:
>
>> anders smith wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just not a great fan of slim line drives and was hoping to find 
>>> a dongle style powersupply (like most laptops use) and then build a 
>>> very compact box with just a standard dvd drive and the me6000 so 
>>> that I get a completely fan less frontend unit around 40cm x 20cm x 
>>> 5cm.....
>>>
>>> Do you have any pointers as to what might be the least painless way 
>>> to get the dvd in the otherwise disk less frontend?
>>>
>> If you don't want slimline drives, then you either have to get a 
>> larger box, or an external drive. Personally I don't have anything 
>> against slimline drives, but I guess an external firewire drive could 
>> be just  as nice, but a bit more expensive.
>
>
> All my movies and music are already on my file server

And this is the clue here I think. But it might be quite a bit of 
storage, depending on if you reencode to xvid or not. Direct copies 
would mean multiple terrabytes to me, and even re-encodes with DD5.1 is 
1.5-2GiB for a movie to get any decent quality (for watching on a 2m 
wide screen).

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