Re: Mini-itx and DVD streaming

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It does seem that leaving DVDs as VOBs (perhaps with some shrinkage) is the
way to go with these boards.  I asked here at work and was surprised to
find
a handful of people with mini-itx systems doing similar things (although
they're not into HA as such)

Mal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Greenwood" <greengreengreen@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mini-itx and DVD streaming



Mal,

I'm running PowerDVD on windows XP. I'm not a windows fan, but the
myHTPC app sits on top and it runs and runs...and you never see the os
underneath..
Kids use it to play ripped dvd's and it has been 100% reliable.

I use another windows app (which name I've forgotten at moment) to trim
and mildly recompress, still as VOB. It's a very good free PC app (I
would prefer to do this on Mac OSX but haven't found a program as good)
and it allows you to remove whole bits like extras, but also trim off
credits etc.

Martin

On 16 Nov 2004, at 17:18, Mal Lansell wrote:

> 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
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>  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?)
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