[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M as a tiny frontend

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Monday 07 June 2004 02:39, Per Åge Sørvik wrote:
> Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> > On Jun 7, 2004, at 1:21 AM, Per Åge Sørvik wrote:
> >> anders smith wrote:
> >>> I'm just not a great fan of slim line drives and was hoping to find
> >>> a dongle style powersupply (like most laptops use) and then build a
> >>> very compact box with just a standard dvd drive and the me6000 so
> >>> that I get a completely fan less frontend unit around 40cm x 20cm x
> >>> 5cm.....
> >>>
> >>> Do you have any pointers as to what might be the least painless way
> >>> to get the dvd in the otherwise disk less frontend?
> >>
> >> If you don't want slimline drives, then you either have to get a
> >> larger box, or an external drive. Personally I don't have anything
> >> against slimline drives, but I guess an external firewire drive could
> >> be just  as nice, but a bit more expensive.
> >
> > All my movies and music are already on my file server
>
> And this is the clue here I think. But it might be quite a bit of
> storage, depending on if you reencode to xvid or not. Direct copies
> would mean multiple terrabytes to me, and even re-encodes with DD5.1 is
> 1.5-2GiB for a movie to get any decent quality (for watching on a 2m
> wide screen).

Just about all my movies are 1.5-2.5GB xvid- or ffmpeg-encoded mpeg4, all high 
quality and pretty much indistinguishable from the original DVDs, even when 
watching on my HDTV. All my music is high bit-rate mp3/ogg/aac. My file 
server has about a terabyte of disk space. =)

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