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

[Boyd II, Willy]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
>Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:04 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M as a tiny frontend 
>*Potential-SPAM*
>
>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>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. =)

And watching those on your aforementioned via setup (ivtv-fb) works just fine?

I'd love to build a small itx box for the bedroom, but divx (and other codec) videos is a must.



>
>- -- 
>Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
>jcw at wilsonet.com
>
>Got a question? Read this first...
>     http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation:
>     http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/
>MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive
>     http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
>
>iD8DBQFAxLwyln8CX+oYdJURAjHoAKCMRVY+xR1h1IyWaV+OcWT6HGcDtQCfe8Rm
>tluBQY5Z/qBugiwRodI+ITs=
>=yFt+
>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
>http://mythtv.org/cgi->bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>