Media Center setup

[koder]

I am a bit confused with the topic.

The book Linux Toys gives a cookbook recipe for building a Linux based 
Digital Video Recorder. Is that what we are building here?
The book was written before the analog to digital conversion.

I know a couple of members in the group have been working on this project.

The question I have been wondering about is what would be the best 
digital card to use for off air digital gathering?

Where in the system would the pi fit?

A system I was using wourld only be running a few hours a day at the 
most, to record a couple of shows and then display them on the set.
Am I missing something?

Harold

On 12/28/2014 06:05 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> I would heavily recommend that you don't use a regular computer to 
> just stream video.  Instead I would get a low power ARM based single 
> board computer.  The reason being that the full computer will quickly, 
> within a couple of months, use so much power that you could have have 
> purchased the SBC and powered it for years with the same amount of 
> power/money. It will literally cost hundreds to run a computer 24/7 
> just to steam video.
> Once you have that, there are a number of programs that will fill your 
> needs, the most popular is XBMC, which has custom images for SBCs such 
> as the Raspberry PI and I believe they also work on the BananaPI which 
> is much more powerful, processor wise, and not that much more expensive.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 12/28/2014 02:08 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>> Stephen, the only thing I plan on doing with this computer is streaming
>> videos over a local LAN and display them on a smartTV.  So would I need
>> it if I wouldn't be using the computer itself?
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Stephen Partington
>> <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     If you can getting a cheap graphics card can give you an extended
>>     life on the Pentium dual core, just make sure it supports decoding
>>     functions. something like the nvidia 720 or AMD R5 or R7 low end 
>> gpu's.
>>
>>     Read up on drivers based on the multimedia application or solution
>>     you will be using.
>>
>>     On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:smelheim85 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hey All,
>>
>>         I know this as been asked a few times, and I should keep all the
>>         convos but there are so many.  I am trying to find a good
>>         solution to start a media center.  So I need to know best
>>         hardware and software.  Of course I am using a Nix system and
>>         looking for anything inexpensive.
>>
>>         Although right now I have access to a Compact SR5000, max 2Gb
>>         RAM. It has a pentium dual core system.  It has Vista so I need
>>         to get some ideas.  The hard drive is around 500Gb but my father
>>         might give me a 1.5Gb.
>>
>>         So this will take a long time for me to get done because of my
>>         situation.
>>
>>         Thanks all
>>
>>         --
>>         Stephen Melheim
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>>         SMelheim85 at gmail.com <mailto:SMelheim85 at gmail.com>
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