[mythtv-users] mythTV + USB MPEG Tuner + NSLU2 ?

[Frank Lynch]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Frank Lynch <frank.lynch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > > Do you need transcoding?  Commercial flagging?  Do you do much
>> > > scheduling?  Run Mythfilldatabase?  Host mythweb? Server media over
>> > > NFS OR Samba to watch your show while doing any of the above?
>> > >
>> > > Transcoding: no.
>> > > Commercial flagging: no.
>> > > Scheduling: yes. (esp searching for title matches in listings)
>> > > Mythfilldatabase: yes.
>> > > mythweb: yes.
>> > > Serve media: no.
>> > >
>> > > I have a feeling from some of the other responses, having the slug
>> JUST
>> > > doing the read and write of the video stream will be taxing the poor
>> > > slug... then adding in some more mysql stuff and mythfilldatabase will
>> be
>> > > PRETTY heavy... so this starting to be come clearer.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your response!
>> > > andrew
>> >
>> > Hi Andrew, All,
>> > I have very similar situation. Let me give a little more background on
>> my
>> > use case. I'm an expatriot from Ireland living in Boston. There are a
>> > couple of Irish TV shows that I dearly miss and would do almost anything
>> to
>> > get, so I'm thinking about building and deploying a mythtv server in a
>> > family members house in Dublin and have it upload a couple of shows a
>> week
>> > to me here in Boston (we're lucky enough to have somewhat reasonable
>> > internet connections on both sides). I'm ideally looking for a really
>> low
>> > power, fanless, appliance like device that I can deploy behind a TV. So
>> as
>> > you might imagine the NSUL2 is very interesting to me, but I'm also
>> > concernet about running a scheduler and mysql on such a bare bones
>> machine.
>> > I actually preform the form factor of the LinkSys NAS 200
>> > (http://url.ie/xsx) as you can deploy sata drives directly into it
>> (rather
>> > than having to power externals). Another option that I'm considering is
>> the
>> > Azuz EEE box ( http://url.ie/xsz), has anyone experience or opinions on
>> how
>> > that would be as a server?
>> > I've run mythtv here in Boston for several years, with hauppage pvr 350
>> and
>> > firewire sources, if folks could recommend a good usb device that can
>> > capture PAL video from an analogue signal (in Ireland) that would also
>> be
>> > greatly appreciated.
>> > thanks & regards,
>> > --Frank
>> >
>> > PS - I've also emailed the folks at viglen.co.uk for pricing
>>
>> The Plextor ConvertX PX-TV-402U can do that. I've seen them on sale cheap
>> lately, probably due to the impending analog demise. You'd probably have
>> to
>> replace the AC adapter, but it can do PAL.
>>
>> Do you mean analogue as in RF or baseband?
>>
>> I'd guess most any UHF capture device can deal with PAL, I'm not sure
>> about
>> the UK RF frequencies though.
>>
>
>
> Very interesting thankyou Brian.
> The fact that it can encode to DivX or MPEG-4 is huge as it will help
> significantly with upload times. I'm still researching the capture scenario,
> but I think analogue RF (UHF/VHF) is what I'm looking for (sorry I'm not
> quite sure what  'baseband' is). One of these things connected to a EEE box
> / slug / viglen sounds very promising.
> I assume that folks have been able to control (tune) these Plextor devcies
> directly from linux/myth?
> cheers
> --Frank
>

fyi - I'm now leaning towards building a MSI Wind box (http://url.ie/xvz)
leveraging a Plextor ConvertX PX-TV for this project hoping to come in
somewhere around $250 for the lot!
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