[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend upgrade

[Bob Cunningham]

Have you considered installing your myth frontend on the Neuros LINK?  http://www.neurostechnology.com/

That's what I'm planning to do, if my MythDora 10 backend with 2x HD-5500s ever works.


-BobC


Rich West wrote:
> Doug Young wrote:
>> I built my recent frontends using the Antec Minuet 350 case [..snip..]
>> As far as distribution goes, I chose mythbuntu [..snip..]
>>   
> 
> I guess the catch in my design is that my front end systems are front
> end-only.  I do all of my video recording/processing on the back end
> system which can be loud and bulky without impacting the WAF.  So, the
> front end system has very few requirements:
> o Small(ish).  Depth/Width no more than 14"
> o MicroATX w/ DVI
> o Quiet case fan
> o Quiet processor fan
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm finding that something of that nature is near
> impossible to find. I don't need bays for a bunch of hard drives and
> cdrom drives which is present in everything out there.
> 
> I currently have two shuttle SK21G systems with Nvida AGP 512MB 6200's
> and it performs quite well aside from the NFS issues.  Unfortunately,
> that configuration being AGP, there's no way I can advance any further
> with the system.  For the short term, I guess I could focus on tackling
> the NFS buffering issue in order to increase the WAF. :)
> 
> I'd probably go with CentOS for the front end only because of its
> similarity with Fedora minus the crazy update schedule. :)
> 
> -Rich