Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Sep 21 04:31 05, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> I couldn't fit 16 in here.

 RJT> They wouldn't all be in here.  :-) 

 MK> Understood but in my situation 'here' is all there is to 'here' and
 MK> unless we're talking networked handhelds, 16 computers aren't going
 MK> to fit in here without me losing all my living space.

Ah.

 RJT> Add one "server" to the mix here.

 MK> Right.  Good plan.  Right now my so-called workstation and router
 MK> act together as my 'server'.  These two boxes have an ongoing
 MK> identity crisis.  Once I get the wiring finished and the batteries
 MK> online the pc/104 jobber will become the fulltime router/firewall
 MK> and that will liberate the C3 jobber as the networked audio/visual
 MK> streaming server, or at least that is the current plan.  I think my
 MK> workstation will always be confused about it's role.

They all end up wearing more than one hat here sometimes,  too.

 RJT> I've considered that too,  locally from room to room.  Put a 
 RJT> low-profile box on the top of the tv and rig it to work from a 
 RJT> remote rather than a keyboard, drive it into the tv rather than a 
 RJT> monitor.  Might be do-able.

 MK> For sure.  I'll let you know but offhand I think the gstreamer libs
 MK> might be what is required to push this box in the right direction.

There were a couple or three packages on freshmeat that seemed to be
applicable to such stuff.  Slightly different slants on doing things,  and
I'll have to check them out one of these days as time permits.

 MK> As far as little TV connected boxes I am still not sure what I am
 MK> going to do there but have some ideas to keep it affordable yet
 MK> desirable.  Forget recording as that is where the resources are
 MK> going to have to go through the roof but for playing I'd like to
 MK> see how little can be gotten away with while keeping quality
 MK> maximized.

I'm mostly thinking about using the stereo audio inputs that are available
(one set is used by the vcr and there's an extra set that's currently
unused) more than anything else.

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