As I’ve mentioned in some of my earlier articles, you really don’t need a very powerful media server if you using the MediaMVP media extender with MVPMC firmware. For example, I’m able to use my MediaMVP to watch MythTv movies, Xvid AVI’s, and home movie’s stored as MPEG’s without putting much of a load on… [Read more…]
March 23, 2008
I noodled around with my MVP/MVPMC setup a little bit more, and discovered the following: Live-TV with my MythTV backend actually works pretty well. I just needed to fix my timezone settings. VLC transcoding, which allows me to view Xvid AVI’s using MVP, is a pretty CPU-intensive process. The default video quality level (labled “DVD”)… [Read more…]
March 22, 2008
Well, I got the MVP last Thursday night, and it’s pretty freakin’ sweet. Here’s my impressions so far: It was easier to set up than I thought it would be, even though I’m also using MVP Media Center (MVPMC) instead of the stock software provided by Hauppauge. The video quality is very good in my… [Read more…]
March 19, 2008
Well, I finally purchased a MediaMVP yesterday from Newegg. If you haven’t seen one of these before, it’s basically a little box that streams videos and music from a networked server to your television. I’m hoping to use it to do the following: Play back recordings that I have stored within my MythTv system Pause… [Read more…]
April 2, 2008
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