Off A Cough [JU]
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MODS: Please don't move to Jeep Geeks. The smarter geeks hang out in OT.
Anyone else watching TV on their computer? I've got an older WinTV card from Happauge... ran S-video from a Dish receiver along with stereo audio. Not bad on a 17" LCD screen, lets me keep a TV in my home office without taking up space.
I'm considering a long-term project that would involve a server in my wiring closet with > 250Gb storage (maybe up to 1Tb?), and diskless workstations (MX mobos) as set-top boxes on the 4 sets in the house... I would run MythTV on Linux as opposed to that over-priced Microsoft XP Media Center edition, and essentially have a system where all of my DVDs would be saved to computer, and every TV in the house could be used as a PVR, and any TV in the house could be used to play back what was recorded - no matter which set was used to record.
I've already got Cat5e wired to every TV, and a Gig switch in the wiring closet. I'm looking at the Happauge 350 PVR card (it has an MPEG-2 hardware encoder) for the set top boxes.
Anybody else done anything crazy like this? I figure most of us are the kind of people that would lift a perfectly good Jeep 4", we're probably the same kind of people that would do shiat like this.
Anyone else watching TV on their computer? I've got an older WinTV card from Happauge... ran S-video from a Dish receiver along with stereo audio. Not bad on a 17" LCD screen, lets me keep a TV in my home office without taking up space.
I'm considering a long-term project that would involve a server in my wiring closet with > 250Gb storage (maybe up to 1Tb?), and diskless workstations (MX mobos) as set-top boxes on the 4 sets in the house... I would run MythTV on Linux as opposed to that over-priced Microsoft XP Media Center edition, and essentially have a system where all of my DVDs would be saved to computer, and every TV in the house could be used as a PVR, and any TV in the house could be used to play back what was recorded - no matter which set was used to record.
I've already got Cat5e wired to every TV, and a Gig switch in the wiring closet. I'm looking at the Happauge 350 PVR card (it has an MPEG-2 hardware encoder) for the set top boxes.
Anybody else done anything crazy like this? I figure most of us are the kind of people that would lift a perfectly good Jeep 4", we're probably the same kind of people that would do shiat like this.