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@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@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@gmail.com
    <mailto:smelheim85@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

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