[myth-ie] STB project [was Re: music]

[John Moylan]

The powerline ethernet stuff looks good now for network. And your
project looks interesting, you should post your H/W wish list.

I'm looking to build my first dedicated media box sometime this year.
My excuse is that I'll be able to consolidate my 2 existing decoders
and  my DVD/DivX player. I'm looking for a fanless low power frontend
with HDMI out. I'll connect it over powerline to the PC in my study
which should be able to decode 1080p H.264 video whenever heavy
lifting is needed . I was thinking of using videolan for streaming
ondemand content to the front end. The front end will need Freesat and
a DTV MPEG4 card (thinking ahead) - these will replace my existing
decoders  and should hopefully be capable of at least doing PAL video
capture. I have so far been unable to find any suitable fanless mobo
with HDMI. JETWAY do Mini-ITX with HDMI and CPU Fans, Via have talked
about SN (S for supreme) fanless mobo's with HDMI for a while now but
I have not managed to find any.

Regards,
John (the list lurker)



On Jan 3, 2008 6:49 PM, Glen Gray <slaine at slaine.org> wrote:
> That's somewhat promising for me. I've been planning on building a
> bling'ed up Set Top Box based on a Via/Intel thin-client. This is
> based on one I've made for work which uses EFL for the fullscreen gui
> and VLC for media playback.
>
> In musing this project, I'd intended on enabling UPnP on my MythTV
> server with the aim of providing either access to recorded TV and
> media files (and possibly liveTV) from the combined backend/frontend
> down stairs or via some sort of customised RTSP server setup running
> in the background on the mythbox. For networking, I doubt that 802.11G
> would be much use, but I think some of the newer Home A/V stuff could
> work well.
>
>
> On 3 Jan 2008, at 18:20, Seán O Sullivan wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:33:06 +0000
> > jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Michael Thompson writes:
> >>> mediatomb is a nice bit of software to export your music collection
> >>> to other devices, like a PS3 for instance. Not sure of any UPNP-AV
> >>> media renderer's that run in MythTV or even on Linux though.
> >>
> >> MythTV 0.20 claims to be a uPnP server -- I think.   I don't know for
> >> sure, since I have never been able to get uPnP (or DAAP for that
> >> matter) interoperating with a variety of devices and servers.  I get
> >> the feeling it's an awful piece of crap fake-"standard".
> >
> > Using MythTV 0.21 (CVS - 14921).
> > uPnP works quite well (for videos) - though doesn't show the directory
> > structure - so end up with a tonne of completely unsorted/random
> > videos.
> > I believe there are some more uPnP improvements on newer releases.
> >
> > I find quickest/easiest method for music via uPnP is ushare (which is
> > still lacking good video support (shows folders etc as expected, won't
> > actually play videos, for me at least).
> >
> > Seán
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