[TriLUG] Networked DVR (was storage with 4 x 80G hard drives?)

[Josh Vickery]

I use an Xbox for that.  It isn't silent but I did replace the almost
80mm fan with a quieter 80mm fan (took a little bit of dremel tooling)
and the fan is now quieter than the larger HD I put in it.  Used
xboxes can be had for ~ $100 and the older ones are much easier to
modify for running linux.  I've been looking for something else, but
its tough to find a solution that is silent, has enough power to
decode mpeg 4, and doesn't cost a bundle.

Josh

On 8/1/05, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> > I guess what I really want is a device that has a big hard drive, can
> > output video for playback on a TV, and can participate in a network.
> > Preferably it would take a wireless network card. The recording side of
> > things is not so important.
> >
> > Putting together a cheap (but reliable) PC with a video card that has a
> > TV-out port, running some form of Linux, seems one of the better options
> > because it is so flexible, except that I want something quieter humming
> > away in my living room. If it was more like a device it would be even
> > better.
> 
> How about the Hauppage Media MVP?
> http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm
> It's small, quiet, and even runs linux so you can set it up
> as a mythtv frontend. :-)  Then, just setup a big box in the
> closet with as many tuners as you want and lots of hard disks
> and you're set.  You could even use multiple ones of these
> all accessing the same backend to drive multiple TVs in your
> house.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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