[mythtv-users] fanless Epia, Mediamvp or network dvd player for frontend?

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:09:01 +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:

>Yes of course you're right, by PC standards the epia is tiny....
>that's partly why I got one.
>
>but there's one thing I forgot to mention. I'm planning on cracking
>open whatever box(es) I have and building a hifi-sized custom case.
>The mainboard on the DSM and MVP boxes is way smaller than 7in square
>:-)
>
>The other half of this project (which I'm not going to start tackling
>here) is to have an always-on master backend with (probably) no
>capture capability running on a v. cheap embedded linux box, eg NSLU,
>Maxtor shared storage in the same custom box.
>
>For me, the smaller and lower power everything is the better......
>I want to look beyond the PC here, that's part of the appeal :-)

Presuming that the idea is that the 'always-on' box is used to wake the
actual recording backend, then take a look at the gumstix line
gumstix.org (or gumstix.com ). A line of very small single board computers
running linux... will run on 3 1.5V batteries. Have USB ports and the top
unit includes a bluetooth chipset.

And I mean SMALL...

Geoff


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