[mythtv-users] mythtv backend on a laptop?

almyth at sbcglobal.net almyth at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 24 02:16:42 EST 2004



    Thanks a lot for your comments, Ian.    Originally I was going to have a
laptop so I can go to friends' houses to show them!  Now I change my mind.
I'll go for  a pundit or similar thing which would be good enough, also it's
not too big/heavy even if I want to carry it around.


--Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Forde" <ian at duckland.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv backend on a laptop?


> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 21:01, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > MythTV will support any card or device supported by the V4L kernel
> > subsystem, as well as the ivtv driver.  I believe there are some USB
> > webcams that are supported by V4L, but I don't know if there are any
> > supported USB tuners.  One problem is that USB 1.1 doesn't really have
> > the bandwidth for full uncompressed NTSC video.
>
> And having said that, I know of at least one laptop docking station
> (it's for one of the newer Thinkpad models) that can accept a PCI card.
> So if you've got a newer think pad with said docking station, and want
> to use that for a myth backend... ;)
>
> Personally, my thoughts on this are that backend boxes are exactly that
> - backend.  They sit on the backend and are rarely seen.  So they can be
> the big bulky server-type boxes, while frontends can be xboxen, pundits,
> and regular motherboards in sexy cases (coolermaster, ahanix, etc...)  I
> wouldn't waste a laptop (even an old one!) on a mythbackend.  I'd use it
> for a firewall instead. ;)
>
> -Ian
>
>


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