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 >> > 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 > > 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 >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you >> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze >> button. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss