Easy peasy linux solution:<br><br>1. Master running MPD service.<br>2. Slaves grabbing the streaming audio off of MPD.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a DirecTV DVR which is a pretty slow, stupid box, but is linked to<br>
their web site, and I can download what they have on offer. I've messed with<br>
mediatomb, and so far the ratio is about three hours futzing with the setup<br>
for each three minutes of music/video I want to play, to be repeated next<br>
time because the working setup inexplicably broke.<br>
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I'd like to have an option to pipe an audio stream from a cental PC to various<br>
non-digital audio systems around the house. My first guess would be an FM<br>
transmitter plugged directly into the output jack of the sound card. Every<br>
FM transmitter I've tried, though, has been barely capable of transmitting to<br>
a receiver 18" away, let alone through the steel siding to the detatched<br>
garage.<br>
<br>
I could build a full-fledged MythTV box to go beside the DirecTV box - who<br>
knows, it might even replace it - but that may be overkill, and doesn't cover<br>
listening in the garage.<br>
<br>
So what do you think I should do? I could shop around for old laptops, and<br>
put one at each listening point - I can handle setting up streaming from<br>
there. I could grab two or three $150 netbooks, and use them - they'd<br>
probably burn less electricity. I could go exotic, get some microatx or<br>
PC104 hardware and build from there. What's the best solution?<br>
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