[Gllug] pervasive computing - everything crashes

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:22 +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On 2/11/2005, "Sean Burlington" <sean at uncertainty.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> >- and I'm fed up with my TV crashing - I keep having to reboot the set
> >top box...
> 
> Ditto my Homechoice STB.  Useless phuckers.
> 
> >Does anyone know which freeview STB brands/models have the best stability?
> 
> Make your own from a MiniITX case and DVB-t card?  Chuck in a hard drive
> and you've got a PVR.

IME the fastest silent Mini-ITX (600 MHz) isn't quite powerful enough to
display DVB-T streams, even with the hardware acceleration on the video
output.  They can manage analogue TV but not DVB-T.  The result is
intermittent sound which makes them unusable.

I find the non-silent Mini-ITX options unsuitable because you have a
very small fan whizzing round which makes for a particularly pervasive
noise.

I'm still trying to find a good option for a silent (disk-less) PVR
playback box (recording and storage being handled by a server elsewhere
in the house).

John

>   Can't vouch for stability of the software
> though.
> 
> >- are any of them at all open?
> 
> I believe the Topfield PVR is, and it has a thriving hack community:
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Puppy/HomePage

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