[mythtv-users] HP Thin Client as Frontend

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Sat Oct 7 16:24:00 UTC 2006


Marvin Match wrote:
> On 6 Oct 2006 at 18:51, Richard Freeman wrote:
>
> ---snipped---
>   
>> Still, I'm always looking for better front-end boxes - if the price gets
>> low enough I'll probably set up another one for the kids to reduce TV
>> contention...
>>
>>     
> I'm interested in thin clients as well. I bought several Neoware E100's new-in-the -
> box that I'm working with. These are tiny, VIA 800 CPU, and boot Windows CE and 
> run a Citrix client. This would make a dandy SD frontend.
>
> The trouble I've run into so far is that the Neo's BIOS seems to be very limited. I can 
> get FreeBSD to run on it, but not Linux.
>
> Any thoughts, please pass them on.
>
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Can the citrix client software handle streaming video over the network. 
Seems like the video would have to be decoded on the server and passed
to the client uncompressed (at least not standard compression).

Calvin...


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