On 7/30/06, Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You're going to need some kind of computer to get multiple independent mythtv
> outputs, there's no good/easy way around it.  You could install the frontend
> on a laptop/minicomputer and whereever you plug it in, it'll get access to
> the same backend data (video, etc) that the server has.  You'd plug the
> laptop/whatever into the video and audio in that room.  Go for something like
> a VIA epia (~300) if you want something small, cheapish, and quiet that can
> handle multimedia.  Any video you'd stream through your house wiring would
> have an extremely degraded signal, and the audio would lose some fidelity,
> and you'd have to string a big mess of wires.
>
> > 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.
>
> Definitely RTFM.  Mythtv is very complicated and specialized - it certainly
> finds a way to punish you if you don't understand everything the first time
> around.
>
> -Dave
>

Just a note, all of the Delta PCI cards from Maudio work well w/ linux.
http://midiman.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=pciinterfaces

They're better quality then any creative labs card you can buy. I've
used them in the past, but I'm too much of an audio snob for them
anymore :)