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[vdr] Re: split: vdr-server & control unit w/ DVD
> From: tobias.meyer-janson@sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de
> [mailto:tobias.meyer-janson@sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:17 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] split: vdr-server & control unit w/ DVD
>
>
> Hello!
>
> IIRC some of you managed to have a vdr server relatively far away from
> the tv so with long cables for av and serial IR.
> How about a DVD-ROM? Has anybody managed to have a DVD-ROM 5 to 10 m
> away from the rest of the LinuxVDR? As far as I know IDE cannot have
> these length. Are there any IDE repeater? Or is the easiest
> way to use a
> firewire connection?
>
> I would find it perfect to have it like this:
>
> Part one at the TV
> Little case without power supply with
> - DVD-ROM (long power cable & long IDE cable with repeater or
> firewire?)
firewire 400 (the usual) can have upto. 4.5m
or FireWire Repeater Mac/PC - US$ 49.95
> - IR receiver (long serial cable)
> - AV-Out (long av cable)
can both be handled with a ir capable (backchannel) video transmitter
> - Power On switch (long power cable)
>
> Part 2 at the workspace (in my case it's near the TV) with
> - Keyboard (long PS/2 cable?)
> - VGA (long VGA cable?)
> - LAN (100BT Ethernet)
>
> Part 3 in another room:
> normal linuxVDR system without DVD-ROM, Keyboard, VGA
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