[vdr] Re: Hardware planning : VDR + EPIA-M + budget DVB

[Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@ghs.fr>]

Luca Olivetti wrote:

> Nicolas Huillard wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am currently choosing hardware for my future VDR box.
> >
> > I want to :
> > * watch free DVB channels
> > * record them and view later, maybe timeshifting
> > * play DVD with AC3/SPDIF output
> > * play DivX files
> > * play MP3, Ogg Vorbis audio on SPDIF
> > * burn recorded DVB shows as DivX on DVD-R
> > * view photos
> > * surf on the web (house's intranet, a few selected sites)
> >
> > I already have :
> > * an EPIA-M 10000
>
> Since I currently don't have an epia board, wouldn't all of the above 
> (and more) possible with a dreambox (except for the dvd burning, but 
> that can be done on another machine)?
> I'm considering both options, and the dreambox would be cheaper and 
> absolutely silent (I'm thinking of a 5620 with no hard disk and an nfs 
> mounted filesystem for recordings).
> I didn't study the dreambox extensively yet, though.
>
> Bye
I didn't re-think about them... It's much more fun to build my own !

http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/Bereiche/Produkte/DM7000_featurelist.php

...those boxes don't include a DVD drive, even a simple reader...
Apart from that, the installed Linux maybe not be as tweakable as a 
standard distribution (maybe simply because of the processor).

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NH



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