<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM, <a href="mailto:mike@grounded.net">mike@grounded.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@grounded.net">mike@grounded.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>In order to use MythTV properly, you need one or more Backend servers, with one or more tuners (to capture the video content), and one or more frontend systems connected via ethernet (to play back the content).</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can also use the UPnP functionality in Myth to play it's recordings on -many- (but not all) upnp players, without the need to build a full frontend, but with much less functionality than a 'real' frontend system. (IE: No scheduling recordings, searching, etc.)</div>
<div><br></div></div>J-e-f-f-A<br>