Re: Media Servers

["Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "David Anumudu" <david.anumudu@d...>
wrote:
> well - like all ideas the details have to be '"finalised"
;-)

:-)

> control would just be a case of choosing which stream you wanted to
view. as
> you have a pc at each client, then it is just a case of a dedicated
media
> viewing type app of which there are many on windows, linux, xbox 
etc.
> 
> again, some of the control aspects are simplified as you only need
to IR
> control the client device, rather than having to have a full ir 
distribution
> system back to node 0.

The problem there is having a decent remote control.  I suppose the
easy answer is Pronto!

> as far as electiricy costs are concerned - i never thought i would
hear
> those from this group!

:-)

> i 'guessed' that this could be achived by using multiple capture 
cards in a
> single machine - again i know this aint cheap, but then if you look
at how
> much video matrix systems are then this would be much cheaper than
that.

I'd hate to imagine how powerful a machine to encode multiple 
recordings would have to be.  I don't know what sort of hardware is
required, but I'd imagine it'd be a pretty high spec.  It does sound
like a good solution though.  Much better when done than my plan of
multiple KAT5 units, black boxes here and there, and lots of sub-
systems to do one task.

Andy



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