[mythtv-users] inexpensive frontend?

[Rob Parkhill]

Well, it's not a myth front-end, but this is about as cheap as it gets:

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm
http://store.snapstream.com/hamediamvp.html

For $100, it plays MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 over your network from a file 
server. It has a windows-only server app that gets installed on your PC, 
but I'm thinking that it's simply an MPEG streaming server. Perhaps 
someone has written a Linux version?

later...
          Rob

Lance Tost wrote:

>I'd like to put together a couple frontends for 2 rooms in my house as 
>inexpensively as possible.  I've checked the hardware database but it's 
>painful to look at every entry tryign to find frontend-only 
>configurations.  Searching for "frontend" only returns 6 entries... 2 of 
>which are in the Mhz area that I'm hoping to be in  (under 700Mhz) but 
>they don't give many details.
>
>What I'm hoping for is to put a frontend on a 400-500Mhz box with 128MB of 
>RAM, a NIC and some sort of tv-out (preferably built-in) at a low-cost 
>(under $150).  Should this be anough horsepower for a frontend-only box?
>  
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