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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