On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Frank Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.lynch@gmail.com">frank.lynch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> > Do you need transcoding? Commercial flagging? Do you do much<br>
> > scheduling? Run Mythfilldatabase? Host mythweb? Server media over<br>
> > NFS OR Samba to watch your show while doing any of the above?<br>
> ><br>
> > Transcoding: no.<br>
> > Commercial flagging: no.<br>
> > Scheduling: yes. (esp searching for title matches in listings)<br>
> > Mythfilldatabase: yes.<br>
> > mythweb: yes.<br>
> > Serve media: no.<br>
> ><br>
> > I have a feeling from some of the other responses, having the slug JUST<br>
> > doing the read and write of the video stream will be taxing the poor<br>
> > slug... then adding in some more mysql stuff and mythfilldatabase will be<br>
> > PRETTY heavy... so this starting to be come clearer.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks for your response!<br>
> > andrew<br>
><br>
> Hi Andrew, All,<br>
> I have very similar situation. Let me give a little more background on my<br>
> use case. I'm an expatriot from Ireland living in Boston. There are a<br>
> couple of Irish TV shows that I dearly miss and would do almost anything to<br>
> get, so I'm thinking about building and deploying a mythtv server in a<br>
> family members house in Dublin and have it upload a couple of shows a week<br>
> to me here in Boston (we're lucky enough to have somewhat reasonable<br>
> internet connections on both sides). I'm ideally looking for a really low<br>
> power, fanless, appliance like device that I can deploy behind a TV. So as<br>
> you might imagine the NSUL2 is very interesting to me, but I'm also<br>
> concernet about running a scheduler and mysql on such a bare bones machine.<br>
> I actually preform the form factor of the LinkSys NAS 200<br>
> (<a href="http://url.ie/xsx" target="_blank">http://url.ie/xsx</a>) as you can deploy sata drives directly into it (rather<br>
> than having to power externals). Another option that I'm considering is the<br>
> Azuz EEE box ( <a href="http://url.ie/xsz" target="_blank">http://url.ie/xsz</a>), has anyone experience or opinions on how<br>
> that would be as a server?<br>
> I've run mythtv here in Boston for several years, with hauppage pvr 350 and<br>
> firewire sources, if folks could recommend a good usb device that can<br>
> capture PAL video from an analogue signal (in Ireland) that would also be<br>
> greatly appreciated.<br>
> thanks & regards,<br>
> --Frank<br>
><br>
> PS - I've also emailed the folks at <a href="http://viglen.co.uk" target="_blank">viglen.co.uk</a> for pricing<br>
<br>
</div></div>The Plextor ConvertX PX-TV-402U can do that. I've seen them on sale cheap<br>
lately, probably due to the impending analog demise. You'd probably have to<br>
replace the AC adapter, but it can do PAL.<br>
<br>
Do you mean analogue as in RF or baseband?<br>
<br>
I'd guess most any UHF capture device can deal with PAL, I'm not sure about<br>
the UK RF frequencies though.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br></div></div>Very interesting thankyou Brian. <br>The fact that it can encode to DivX or MPEG-4 is huge as it will help significantly with upload times. I'm still researching the capture scenario, but I think analogue RF (UHF/VHF) is what I'm looking for (sorry I'm not quite sure what 'baseband' is). One of these things connected to a EEE box / slug / viglen sounds very promising.<br>
I assume that folks have been able to control (tune) these Plextor devcies directly from linux/myth?<br>cheers<br><font color="#888888">--Frank<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>fyi - I'm now leaning towards building a MSI Wind box (<a href="http://url.ie/xvz">http://url.ie/xvz</a>) leveraging a Plextor ConvertX PX-TV for this project hoping to come in somewhere around $250 for the lot!<br>
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