Re: [K12OSN] MythTV and K12LTSP

["Mark Trimble" <matrimble gmail com>]

Thanks Jeremy,

I was checking out what VIA has to offer for its C7 (http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/mainboards/via_c7) and notice some fanless cpu/mb combinations. Just wondering what lead you to chose the VB7001G (which does use a cooling fan)?

I'm interested because quiet doesn't help me if the sound or video cards don't work well under LTSP!

Mark

On 10/25/07, Jeremy White <jwhite codeweavers com> wrote:

> It might be doable IF mythtv can be run as a local application on each
> client - that would drop the bandwidth to around 350KBps. For that
> each client would need at least 700-800 MHz OR hardware MPEG2 decoding
> (which works only if all video is in MPEG2 format). I know that some
> people have been successful using certain VIA motherboards with said
> hardware decoding as diskless frontends - you might check the
> mythtv-users email archives for their experiences.

I'm doing this successfully with LTSP on my main mythbackend server,
and mythfrontend as a local app; I'm using a VIA VB7001G based system ($184 new; very nice).
Of course, this is in my house, and there aren't a whole lot of nodes, so I'm not exactly
straining the network <grin>.

Cheers,

Jeremy

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