<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:36 AM, jansenj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jansenj%2Bmyth@gmail.com">jansenj+myth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have an HD fontend/backend currently connected to an HD TV via DVI<br>
and spdif to my amp. I am trying to come up with a solution to be<br>
able to watch my recordings in another room as cheaply as possible.<br>
<br>
Here's the catch I just use OTA (hdhomerun), so 90% of my recordings<br>
are HD bandwidth. Note: I do have wired Ethernet to the secondary<br>
viewing location.<br>
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So I've got a few thoughts and looking for any comments or feedback.<br>
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1. For $230 I could get an AppleTV, but its not clear to me how easy<br>
it is to get that working for HD recordings, if I went this route, I'd<br>
love to maintain the apple SW for the ability to rent movies if I<br>
desired. Either way, cracking the unit would not be an option as I<br>
don't have or have easy access to an Intel Mac. Is this still a<br>
viable option for processing 1080i MPEG2 using a myth gui on an Apple<br>
TV? I've read several success stories for using Apple Tv for SD<br>
recordings, but not as many for HD recordings.<br>
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2. Cost prohibitive option would be buying a mac mini, space would<br>
prohibit a shuttle PC even if you could configure one cheaper that<br>
could still handle HD.<br>
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3. HD capable upnp player. But I haven't had any experience setting<br>
up the backend to play nice with a upnp media player, is there a how<br>
to on configuring an XP or VISTA piece of SW that I could test out the<br>
upnp capabilities of the backend? Plus I understand you loose all<br>
commercial skipping abilities.<br>
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4. Cheapest option would be if I could use the existing hardware to<br>
mirror the digital video and spdif audio on the analog counter parts<br>
(TV out of the video card and headphone jack of the audio), then run<br>
analog cables to by second viewing location, but I don't even know<br>
where to start or if it is even possible with this option. I realize<br>
using this option as stated would only allow 1 recording to play at a<br>
time, but that is acceptable for now. I'm guessing someone has<br>
thought of this before, but I have yet to see any indication that<br>
anyone has done it. Basically run two independent frontend sessions<br>
off the same CPU.<br>
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5. And of course I could transcode every HD recording down to SD and<br>
use an MVP, but I'd rather not have to wait for a day for the<br>
transcodes to always finish, plus that is a lot more electricity to<br>
use if I transcode EVERY recording. Besides, in 0.21, there was not<br>
an obvious way to drop resolution, but still maintain MPEG2<br>
compression. Can anyone help me in that department if it sounds like<br>
thats the best option of those I've described.<br>
<br>
I've been thinking about this stuff for the last 6 months and have not<br>
made much headway, any comments or feedback would be much appreciated.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>1) I use 2.4GHz P4's with XvMC or SLIM as frontends. Not too expensive especially when they are left over from upgrades.</div><div><br></div><div>2) You can use a modulator and a RF to IR module to us the remote from the other room. The remote transmits RF due to a special "battery" that is an RF transmitter and a half length battery to make up the difference. The RF Rx is put near the myth box. I think you can have two instances of myth on one box but I don't know how to control them with the remote as on my system, both instances respond to the remote commands. ie. doesn't work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3) You can run coax to the other room. One for video, one for audio. I have done this and can explain what I did if you ask. Doesn't help with the remote. I just did it to be able to watch what is being watched in the other room.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>