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 :)