RE: Shuttle & via epia

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

Marcus,

Seems a bit of a waste IMO to have 3 - why not combine the internet
gateway/firewall machine with the MP3 jukebox?
It doesn't have to do much processing as you will presumably be
streaming
audio to players elsewhere in the house, so one should be well capable
of
both tasks - and indeed the misterhouse etc functionality too...
I have a shuttle sv25 with a 1 gig celery in it as my MP3/WMA server
and
it's not a bad bit of kit.  Am adding various other bits of software
to it
over time as it's only ticking over....
The standard CPU fan that comes with them is a but noisy, so I used the
one
that came with the Celery - which is fine as long as you don't want to
install a PCI card in the box - which I don't anyway.
The newer SV50/55(?) is much quieter apparently, and can take 'real'
cpu's.
Either of the mobos should be fine for what you want to do - it's just
a
question of which processor to go for......
Can't comment on DivX as am not into that, though I expect the beefier
the
better really....

HTH


Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Warrington [mailto:marcusw@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 July 2002 13:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Shuttle & via epia
> 
> 
> Just looking at the Via Epia boards and the Shuttle PC's.. 
> has anyone used
> these?
> 
> They sound like they could be ideal for having in Node0, 
> small and low heat.
> 
> I'm thinking of maybe having one (Epia) as an internet 
> gateway and firewall
> (using
> a USB ADSL connection). Another as an (wholehouse) MP3 jukebox and
yet
> another as
> a (wholehouse) DivX Jukebox (and DVD). Does anyone know if 
> they're up to the
> job ?
> I'm thinking that maybe they won't have enough grunt to 
> decode Divx (output
> via SVHS)
> or act as a PVR ?
> 
> In the future another could also be running misterhouse or 
> some other such
> software.
> 
> Marcus
> 
> 
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