Here's the answer for your individual units in each room: http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm And here is an alternative for the server: http://www.snapstream.com/ I know someone who uses this setup because his wife couldn't stand listening to the hard drive spinning on a DVR in the living room. -- ---- ------ Todd Young -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Dave Sherman" <thurianknight at gmail.com> > Hi all, > > My wife and I are going to start building a house in the next month or so. > One of the things I intend to do is run network and speaker wiring through > the walls, from a central server closet to each room. What I have in mind is > to build a MythTV media server, with the ability to send audio and/or video > out through independent channels to each room. So if my wife is in her hobby > room, she can use her laptop to access the server, and tell it to start a > specific music playlist and send it to the hobby room's speakers. Meanwhile, > I can be sitting in my den with my own laptop, and tell the server to send > my own playlist to that room's speakers, or perhaps send a TV show or movie > to the TV and speakers in that room. > > One of my design goals is to NOT require a computer in every room, except > maybe a laptop to access the server and tell it where to send the output. > I'm not sure if we need to install separate sound and video cards for each > room, or what. > > I've only just started doing some research on this, so I haven't really RTFM > yet. Just hoping to get a few pointers from those of you who have done the > same or similar. > > -- > Dave Sherman > MCSA, MCSE, CCNA > Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Dave Sherman" <thurianknight at gmail.com> Subject: [tclug-list] MythTV / home media server setup questions Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:25:54 +0000 Size: 3723 Url: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060801/1123942b/attachment.eml