[TriLUG] anyone want a freevo system?

[Magnus]

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Greg Brown wrote:

> I am interested in this as well.  My ultimate vision of a PVR also 
> includes the ability to store the bulk of the data on a server which 
> will house a bunch of large disks.

Yeah IMHO a PVR should have only a small disk to use as a buffer.  Or a 
lot of memory instead.  PVR should be a cheap "toaster" that you can 
put on every TV.  Central file server should have all video & music 
files.  PVR may have a small solid state disk (64MB flash?) to boot 
Linux and get the Freevo software going quickly, but everything else 
should work over the network.

> The idea of some kind of flat-screen, diskless media playback machine 
> is in the nirvana realm as far as my playback vision goes, but it sure 
> would be sweet.

And doable, I think.

Cost of entry is high though due to high cost of components to build a 
set top box that can compress video streams in realtime to NFS while at 
the same time decompressing a stream to the TV.  That's a lot of CPU 
horsepower.  You won't get that out of a Pentium 100 found in the trash.

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
"From the Fury of the Norsemen please Deliver us, Oh Lord"
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