[mythtv-users] Hello after long absence - looking to build very small Myth setup.

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:57 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 01:26:15PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>    Please note at the outset: We're living in an apartment for the
>> next 6-8 months while we look for a house to buy in a more southern
>> portion of California. Space is at a premium here so I'm curious about
>> building a _very_ small machine that can record no more than 2
>> programs at a time and doesn't need to play back more than 1 at a
>> time. I'd like to find something _very_ small, like Roku sized if
>> possible, but reading through the MythTV site I seem to see a lot fo
>
>     I don't know about that. A hard drive is going to be larger than a Roku.
> Some things just take up space. Storage is one of them. You might want to
> consider something a little less extreme like a cube/shoebox system. It's
> not quite so large and it will have plenty of room for interesting options
> like an aftermarket video card.

Thanks. I was likely going to go with an SSD which gets the drive down
to laptop size, or smaller.

I'm not sure at this point what the shoebox sized machine would gain
me beyond the after-market video card. If the performance of this
micro Myth backend was good enough in terms of compressing OTA HDTV
and commercial removal then one of our laptops might serve as the
frontend.

Just thoughts.

Thanks,
Mark