[mythtv-users] Specs

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Thursday 08 January 2004 22:54, Brad Allen wrote:
> My DVD is in my backend server.  I
> want to watch it over the network.  Is DVD already in MPEG2 '350
> outputable stream?

With a patch to mplayer, yes.

> Anyway, whatever transcoding it needs, I certainly
> don't want to bother my PIII with; it already has to be my router,
> mail server, DNS, etc., and it's low on memory AND disk space.

Goodness gracious... You're already near the bottom end for a frontend, and 
you're tacking all that on top of it? How 'bout upgrading the processor and 
memory?...

> That's one of my zillions of little projects: get DVD to go over
> network to my '350 out.  Ideas?  That's not a topic for this mailing
> list until we want Myth to do it, right?  Will Myth do it?  (Now I'm
> showing my ignorance in bounds.)

Mount the DVD to your frontend over nfs, play back with the patched mplayer 
out the 350.

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