Ok, so a lot's happened. Yesterday was a very busy day (and night). Today was something completely different again. Without going into detail here (as I'm out of time), its built - well, the hardware, Ubuntu's installed, and a minimal MythTV backend and frontend is installed (oh, and ffmpeg is doing its thing) etc.
I'll spend time over the weekend going into the gory detail (lots of photos) and break the build into a few parts to make it easier to read (and write). Quick fag packet calcs are ~5fps HDTV transcode from MPEG2 to WMV (exact details and profile later). HDTV decode is a non-starter - but we knew that already... System runs at around 30watts and is very quiet, performance is pretty good overall (but the xserver seems slowww) and powerline is rubbish - couldn't help that last outburst... Lots and lots to say, but I really will have to leave the detail for later over the weekend.
We're still in the woods...
but I can at least see where the pub lights are now! ;-)
I'll spend time over the weekend going into the gory detail (lots of photos) and break the build into a few parts to make it easier to read (and write). Quick fag packet calcs are ~5fps HDTV transcode from MPEG2 to WMV (exact details and profile later). HDTV decode is a non-starter - but we knew that already... System runs at around 30watts and is very quiet, performance is pretty good overall (but the xserver seems slowww) and powerline is rubbish - couldn't help that last outburst... Lots and lots to say, but I really will have to leave the detail for later over the weekend.
We're still in the woods...
but I can at least see where the pub lights are now! ;-)
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Since I saw the story about this on The Register (I think) I've been considering buying more or less the same stuff to use as a file and itunes server for my house.
I'm mainly thinking it'll be much quieter and use much less power than my current PC, and I'll be able to turn that off a little more often.
I'm pretty sure it will work fine, but currently not sure whether to install XP, Vista or try and get OSX on it.
Also can you give us any idea what the fan noise is like?
Thanks
James
I too would be interested as to how noisy your particular build is - since my last comment I've been having second thoughts as to whether I should bother with the Freecom Network device I posted about here. and setup a media centre pc instead.
Any info you can provide will be gratefully received.
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