RE: Media Servers

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

I am not planning on streaming everything. If a source already exists
as
video/s-video/RGB I would distribute that directly to the TV rather
than
undergo additional conversion.

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


-----Original Message-----
From: David Anumudu [mailto:david.anumudu@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 January 2003 00:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Media Servers


Keith

interesting thoughts...

I am a kat5 user, and have been wrestling with the task of delivering
whole
house audio / video / computing / gaming .

to achieve that I have come to the conclusion that svideo/rgb
distribution
sourced out of the back of set top boxes etc is not up to the task if
you
are a home theatre/av enthusiast.

If you want to drive plasmas, projectors, lcds (basically all of the
new
types of display devices that have a specific native resolution) , then
you
need to have a pc to drive them at that custom resolution to achieve
best
performance, with the video scaled to that resolution. Add on to that
the
fact that many of these devices now have DVI then again a PC per device
is
required..So, that takes care of the output, source selection etc..How do
we
get the input?

My thoughts here are again that everything broadcast should be captured
and
streamed on the LAN as MPEG (using capture cards for Sky/Tivo/games
consoles, DVBs card for non sky satellite, DVBt cards for freeview),
and
existing personal DVD/music collections ripped on to hard disc and
simply
shared across a network filesystem

this gives the best quality, and the greatest flexibility, allowing any
connected device to either pull the stream off the LAN (giving a true
'matrix / kat5 switcher solution), plus each device can also do its own
thing locally..

it just needs the co-ordination and integration of a number of
technologies
/ applications out there which individually *almost* deliver this..

anyone up for collaborating on this?

regards
David



http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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