Re: Mini-itx and DVD streaming

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thats handy to know.  What OS are you running, and what DVD player
software?
Have you ever tried any compressed formats?

Mal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Greenwood" <greengreengreen@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mini-itx and DVD streaming




I have been using a VIA EPIA M10000 Mainboard for over a year playing
back ripped DVD's. over a network from a server. I run myHTPC as a
front end.
(Uncompressed DVD VOB) It works very well.

Martin

On 16 Nov 2004, at 15:38, Mal Lansell wrote:

> Is anyone using a mini-itx based PC for streaming video? I'm
> considering
>  it, but having read a few articles it's not clear whether the Epia
> boards
>  have enough CPU power to do it.
>
>  I'm looking to retain the 5:1 sound, and would prefer to store the
> movies in
>  a compressed format such as divx or xvid rather than as full dvd isos
> (just
>  for disk-space reasons). I assume that Windows Media Center will be
> too
>  much overhead, but is there a standalone solution I could use
> instead? If
>  not, would streaming DVD iso images reduce the CPU load (no need for
> the CPU
>  to decompress?)