Ubuntu Video Server
* Intel D945GCLF2 "Little Falls" Mini-ITX mobo w/ dual-core Atom 330 proc (1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, 45nm, hyper-threading, step C0, 8W TDP), one 240-pin DDR2 DIMM slot (up to 2GB), 8x USB 2.0, 1x IDE, 2x 3.0Gbps SATA , VGA, s-video out, 10/100/1000 LAN (HWaddr 00:1c:c0:cd:99:15), bios version LF94510J.86A.0140.2008.1231.0012, $82 newegg 5/22/2009.
* Western Digital WD10EADS 1TB HD, $90 newegg 5/22/2009.
* Apex MI-008 mini-itx case w/ stock Allied 250W PSU, $48 newegg 5/22/2009.
* 1GB PC2-4200 (DDR2-533) DIMM, free from imageshack.
Software:
* Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS Desktop
posted by Donn Lee @ 8:12 PM
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Something I don't understand here -- where the video server comes in, or rather how it ties into the MythTV system. It appears that you have three computers interconnected now -- MythTV front and back ends and the video server. They all communicate over the network? Video server acts as an input?
Frank, yes my blog doesn't document this well. I moved to a Popcorn Hour as my "front-end" (connected to the TV). The popcorn hour doesn't do the myth frontend, but it does SMB network shares. So, the popcorn hour mounts a network share owned by the video server. That share has video files; that's easy. Now, to view the TV recordings that are on the myth backend, the popcorn hour can mount another share owned by the myth backend (that share has the HDTV OTA recordings). But, I did not like this because it was a pain to flip between the two network shares on the popcorn hour. I wanted one network share for ease-of-use. So, I mounted the myth backend share on the video server in a subdir of the share owned by the video server. Now the popcorn hour mounts one share (owned by the video server), and in that share there's the video files (stored on the video server) AND the network share owned by the myth backend. Yes, all of this runs over a simple Cat5 ethernet in the house & a couple of ethernet switches. Kinda confusing but it works and has excellent WAF!
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