Petsa,
Thank you for your comments.
My intention is to use the central server as a TV Server and also to store our DVD collection which will be ripped, suggest on doing this in MP would be appreciated.
I am thinking of using Nano-ITX boards for each room. The benefit is they consume very little power and the size means I don't have to much space taken up in my rack. Looking at the VIA website this is the blurb for the Nano-ITX NX board:
"Packed full of advanced multimedia features through the VIA CX700M2 system media processor, the all-in-one digital media IGP chipset integrating the VIA UniChrome™ Pro II 2D/3D graphics core and an extensive array of high end audio and video technologies, including Vinyl Multi-channel HD audio, hardware MPEG-2/-4 and WMV9 video decoding acceleration, and a built-in HDTV encoder up to 1080i for HD DVD playback for the richest entertainment experience"
So I am guessing that although the CPU is only rated at 1.2GHz for the fanless version some of the grunt video work will be offloaded to the GPU?
So when using the MP TV Server what is the client actually sent a raw MPEG4 stream?
Paul |