[mythtv-users] UPnP Client?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:51:34 -0600
Brian Wood wrote:

> 
> On Apr 4, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sorry I should mention that I haven't got a slug, I used  
> > twonkymedia on
> > a PC. However provided the slug has sufficient IO bandwidth to drag
> > video off the hard drive (over usb2) and out onto the ethernet, it
> > shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> 
> I have four slugs, performing various tasks around the house.
> 
> Getting even SD video off on in real time can be done, but everything  
> has to be set up just right, as you are pushing the limits of the  
> device. I have better luck with NFS than with Samba (not surprising)  
> and you need to have a hard drive enclosure with good USB performance  
> (the actual drive performance is academic, because the limiting  
> factor is the USB interface).
> 
> You will also want to "de-underclock" the slug (ie: up the clock from  
> 133 to 266) and don't plan on running anything else on the slug at  
> the same time. Don't use a USB hub and use the ext3 filesystem, NOT  
> NFTS.
> 
> Running OpenSlug also gives better performance than UnSlung, as you  
> don't have the overhead of the Linksys firmware program.
> 
> The slug is a great little machine, especially for the price. It  
> makes a great mailserver, low-load webserver, NAS server, backup  
> controller, iTunes server, Audio playback adapter, scanner server,  
> print server, and conversation piece.
> 
> It is not the world's best video server.

Thanks for that. I hope my mini howto proves useful to someone, as it
works exactly the same if twonkymedia is run from a PC (as on my LAN).

Might add it to the wiki some time.
-- 
Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>