Thoughts on a set-top box

[Andrew Beals]

Easy peasy linux solution:

1. Master running MPD service.
2. Slaves grabbing the streaming audio off of MPD.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>wrote:

> I have a DirecTV DVR which is a pretty slow, stupid box, but is linked to
> their web site, and I can download what they have on offer.  I've messed
> with
> mediatomb, and so far the ratio is about three hours futzing with the setup
> for each three minutes of music/video I want to play, to be repeated next
> time because the working setup inexplicably broke.
>
> I'd like to have an option to pipe an audio stream from a cental PC to
> various
> non-digital audio systems around the house.  My first guess would be an FM
> transmitter plugged directly into the output jack of the sound card.  Every
> FM transmitter I've tried, though, has been barely capable of transmitting
> to
> a receiver 18" away, let alone through the steel siding to the detatched
> garage.
>
> I could build a full-fledged MythTV box to go beside the DirecTV box - who
> knows, it might even replace it - but that may be overkill, and doesn't
> cover
> listening in the garage.
>
> So what do you think I should do?  I could shop around for old laptops, and
> put one at each listening point - I can handle setting up streaming from
> there.  I could grab two or three $150 netbooks, and use them - they'd
> probably burn less electricity.  I could go exotic, get some microatx or
> PC104 hardware and build from there.  What's the best solution?
> _______________________________________________
> Kclug mailing list
> Kclug at kclug.org
> http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://kclug.org/pipermail/kclug/attachments/20090909/ee073df1/attachment.htm>