[mythtv-users] Output to h.264

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:49:55 am Raymond Wagner wrote:
>   On 8/5/2010 13:43, Jeff Artz wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM, mike at grounded.net
> > <mailto:mike at grounded.net> <mike at grounded.net
> > 
> > <mailto:mike at grounded.net>> wrote:
> >     ...
> >     Basically, I'm looking for a way to get rid of the many power
> >     hungry modulators I'm using now to output video onto my coax and
> >     to better use it. I'd also like to benefit from the cool mythtv
> >     PVR functionality.
> > 
> > This argument doesn't make sense at all -- you say you want to replace
> > 'power hungry' modulators with Computer systems running MythTV???   So
> > going from 10-20W per modulator to 200-400W per computer?
> 
> Wait... 400W for a single computer?  Ive got two full size computers, an
> embedded Geode computer, 17 hard drives, two optical drives, a hardware
> RAID card, two filled gigabit switches, a wireless AP, five tuners, POTS
> ATA, DSL modem, and WiFi access point all on a single UPS, and it barely
> exceeds 300W consumption at the wall.

He's probably thinking that many computers have 400-watt PSUs, which does not mean they actually draw that much. Some 
gamer machines being pushed hard can approach 400 watt draws, but machines used for Myth generally do not come close to 
that.

I think a frontend-only machine like a Revo will be in the same class for power consumption as some of the STBs around.

The real question is what the OP means by "STB". I think as he learns more about Myth he will decide to set up Myth 
frontends, with perhaps one or two STBs he already has to use as UPnP clients