[TriLUG] Networked DVR (was storage with 4 x 80G hard drives?)

[Owen Berry]

Sorry to hijack this thread (seems to have run out for now anyway), but
I was wondering if there were any thoughts on using the Linksys NSLU2
and Debian (or other Linux based firmware replacements) to build a
networked DVR.

The one sticking point that I can see is the video output. It looks like
you can get a USB to s-video cable, although they seem to be aimed at
capturing video to a PC, not the other way around. Maybe there are more
promising solutions out there.

Any thoughts? Other devices out there that would be more suitable?

Thanks.

-- Owen

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:03:59PM -0400, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> 	I went to look up the USB 2.0 spec, 480Mbits/second is fairly fast, you
> could use something like this
> 
> http://peter.korsgaard.com/articles/debian-nslu2.php
> 
> To hang the drives off of, I'd be sure to use as many of the USB chanels
> as possible to avoid contention, but for not much dough you could have a
> fairly decent config.
>