FWIW, I'm running a Zbox (zotac, atom) with mythbuntu as a frontend to a 1080p TV via hdmi. I expect that the model with the amd fusion cpu would do just as we, if not slightly better from what I've read. You can get a MB (mini or micro) with the fusion CPU on it for less than $100 if you hunt around (I got a mini MSI board with Fusion for $65 after rebate). Ram is relatively cheap for these as well. FWIW, I even run mine off an 8G flash drive. Works like a champ. I also have a MythTV backend (also mythbuntu) I built with an old P4, 512M, 2x300G drives for storage, and 2 tuner cards. This runs off a 4G flash drive. You really don't need much horsepower on a backend. Transcoding and commercial flagging do take a bit of cpu, but if you're not in a hurry for it, who cares? The P4 just cranks it out a little slower, but this doesn't affect feeding the front ends. (I also have installed a mythtv frontend on my deskbook). Good stuff. -- -Eric 'shubes' On 06/22/2012 09:10 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I've tried dnla-based stuff with my xbox360 for tv, but found it was > more hassle than it was worth as m$ doesn't support decent codecs for > playback anyways. Can your tv actually dnla high-res media? For me if > not, it's kind of a why-bother. > > With the 360 being useless for high-def playback, I built an ubuntu > "media pc" with an hdmi nvidia card, xbmc, and never looked back. Until > it died at least. > > I got a boxee box, and that could do netflix, 1080p mkv playback, > cifs/nfs, and just about everything in between, and was pretty decent. > At least until an update a week ago bricked it. grr. > > Sadly I don't think hardware vendors "get it" to make actual playback > function openly supporting varieties of codecs, but dnla was a start. > > What kind of tv is yours? > > More interesting is they're hacking the "smart" tv's now, though not > sure if their hardware would actually support decent playback of > anything but codecs cut off at the knees to protect media cartels and > not anger them. Having root hopefully takes back control of what amounts > to a lightweight linux box on just about every modern smart tv, just add > xbmc and some hardware gpu offloading. I would ass-u-me they have some > level of hardware decode on them, so let the games begin. > > http://hackaday.com/2012/06/20/getting-root-on-a-sony-tv/ > http://www.samygo.tv/ > > Sadly I bought an lcd the year before smart tv's became the rage, so I'm > stuck with external hardware via hdmi. Now if i could find one that > didn't die/suck. > > -mb > > On 06/22/2012 12:57 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: >> For that setup i used mediatomb. It is a ver simple program that says it >> can do transcoding but I was unable to do it. I think debian has it in >> the repos, but if not pretty easy to compile. One it is set up and the >> config file has the correct info in regards to databases (it can us >> mysql or sqlit as the back end) the the rest is through a web interface. >> >> Nadim Hoque >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> From: Mark Phillips >> Sent: 6/22/2012 12:24 >> To: Phoenix Linux Users >> Subject: Looking for Streaming Media Software Recommendations >> >> I have a underused Debian headless server, a network enabled DLNA TV, >> so.....why not stream some movies to this TV? I am looking for >> recommendations for a streaming media server that will run on a headless >> Debian server. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss