<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jim Cheetham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@gonzul.net">jim@gonzul.net</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;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Steve Hodge <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Jim Cheetham <<a href="mailto:jim@gonzul.net">jim@gonzul.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> use another appliance as a playback machine, copying files over NFS<br>
>> shares and so on. No streaming. I lose some features this way, but<br>
>> gain others.<br>
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> I'm curious about what sorts of features you gain ... can you elaborate?<br>
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</div>Playback comes from a Popcorn Hour A110 -<br>
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This box gets media from multiple sources across the LAN and WAN (to<br>
be honest, it actually sucks trying to play back YouTube content), but<br>
for me the biggest win is the 1TB storage onboard (well, I added a<br>
SATA disk), which gives me someplace to copy all the long-term-storage<br>
programs (usually kids episodes), and I can leave the Myth backend<br>
alone to expire whenever it wants to.<br></blockquote><div><br>I've gone the more traditional way: fileserver with a 3TB RAID 5 for everything except recordings (which are on a combined fe/be with about 600GB of space).<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It pre-dates the MythTV in my network, so although I could replace it<br>
all with a more generic Myth frontend, there's no need to. It can do<br>
is own bittorrent, podcatching and so on, but I don't use those.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>What's the A110 like playback-wise? E.g. is it better or worse than myth for interlacing (if you've compared; I guess if you're happy it must be pretty good)? Can it do anything with myth's commercial detection? I presume it's got skip forward/back? There's no way I'd accept anything these days which didn't have 30 second skip. I also don't think I could live without timestretch.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div><br>