Slave Specs

shred444 · 2007-01-06, 17:59

Just wondering what kind of specs a tv client or slave should have to stream from a server. I'm guessing its not going to have to be as powerful. Maybe a bit of ram?

Heres my idea:
1-2Ghz
512mb Memory
40 gig HD
Graphics card with S-Video Out

MariachiElf · 2007-01-06, 19:04

I'm also curious about what the client should be.

Since it's responsible for the actual end user experience of the playback, I'm thinking it still needs some high quality video/audio components.
I'm looking at the NVidia 7600GT or better (since that's the minimal card that supports all the features of PureVideo) and the M-Audio Revolution 7.1.

funkstar · 2007-01-06, 23:48

actually most of the hard work will be done by the client, this is especially true with MediaPortal not supporting software based cards at the moment. All the server is doing is taking the video and audio streams and either dumbing them to disk (recording) or sending them out to the clients (streaming). Yes, there is some database management going on there too, but that is pretty light weight compaired to decoding video, especially HD.

I've heard of people managing to get DVB cards working under linux on P133 boxes. Granted this was using very simple software, but it shows how little power should be needed to handle digital and hardware based cards.

Drawing the GUI, now with animations, and decoding the video along with displaying some overlays is a whole other proposition

I would say that whatever you need for a MP box right now is what the clients should be, minus the storage. the server can be a lot lower speced, but with more disks and perhaps dual network cards for more throughput.

CodeMonkey · 2007-01-07, 03:23

Personally what I'd like to see some enterprising individual(s) do is make some firmware for the mediamvp that could act as a client for the tvserver. Now that would be slick.

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MariachiElf Portal Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA / Los Angeles, CA Posts: 17 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'm also curious about what the client should be. Since it's responsible for the actual end user experience of the playback, I'm thinking it still needs some high quality video/audio components. I'm looking at the NVidia 7600GT or better (since that's the minimal card that supports all the features of PureVideo) and the M-Audio Revolution 7.1.

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funkstar Portal Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Home Posts: 327 Thanks: 4 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country:	actually most of the hard work will be done by the client, this is especially true with MediaPortal not supporting software based cards at the moment. All the server is doing is taking the video and audio streams and either dumbing them to disk (recording) or sending them out to the clients (streaming). Yes, there is some database management going on there too, but that is pretty light weight compaired to decoding video, especially HD. I've heard of people managing to get DVB cards working under linux on P133 boxes. Granted this was using very simple software, but it shows how little power should be needed to handle digital and hardware based cards. Drawing the GUI, now with animations, and decoding the video along with displaying some overlays is a whole other proposition I would say that whatever you need for a MP box right now is what the clients should be, minus the storage. the server can be a lot lower speced, but with more disks and perhaps dual network cards for more throughput.