Re: Pinnacle ShowCenter + PVR

["keyvan2r" <keyvan@xxxxxxx>]

Tony

I would be very interested to know what you think of the ShowCenter,
because I am toying with the idea of client/server distributed video
and movies. I was going to go down the route of slient windows
clients PC's where my plasma screens are (3 locations - all with
cat5 wired), but this one made me stop and reconsider. I am building
a 2 Tb server to rip my dvd's onto. But then I thought it would be
nice to have some kind of PVR in there too so that recorded off-air
programs could be stored and viewed by clients. I looked at the
Pinnecle sat card CI, which claims Sky compatibility, but it needs a
CAM in order to slot a Sky card into the device. I am looking around
for this, but so far no luck -- if anyone knows what kind of CAM
would be suitable for sky & how to get one, I would be very
grateful --
Then recorded Sky programs could be viewed over the lan.
The main question would be how it manages the various flavours of
MPEG video out there. I am hesitant to start ripping 190+ dvd's into
vob's (dvdshrink or dvd-decryptor) if Showcenter wants to see them
in a MPEG2 format.
How are you planning to use Showcenter??

Thanks

Keyvan
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Tony Butler <lists@a...> wrote:
> Quoting Ross McKillop <home@i...>:
>
> > Anyone know if this can work without a windows-based server?
>
> Not yet, but I should be able to let you know soon :)
>
> I'm not sure that the windows software is required for running it
as such, but
> maybe is necessary/recommneded for setting it up.
>
> Anyway, it's a linux based system itself, so someone is bound to
hack the thing
> to do all sorts of funky stuff (in much the same way the xbox has).
>
> > Still looking for the best solution for video and music from
server
> > here... the one winning for music appears to be the SliMP3,
does
> > everything I need , looks nice, well established and loads of
>
> The xbox with XBM does a pretty good job, though I can't be arsed
setting it up
> properly (hence the showcenter - spend you way out of lethargy :)).
> Might be worth a look?
>
> T.