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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