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 Post subject: HD from Back End
PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:11 pm 
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I have several power (but very loud) servers that run in the garage. Most of the time they are idle and it would be cool if I could leverage them to perform the processing for HD video playback. The rest of the house has access to these servers through gigabit LAN.

Is there a way to stream HD video from the servers (Dual Xeon @ 2.8 Ghz running Vmware ESX) to a front end box?

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 Post subject: Re: HD from Back End
PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:23 am 
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gatorback wrote:
I have several power (but very loud)
servers that run in the garage. Most of the time they are idle
and it would be cool if I could leverage them to perform the
processing for HD video playback. The rest of the house has
access to these servers through gigabit LAN.

Is there a way to stream HD video from the servers (Dual Xeon @
2.8 Ghz running Vmware ESX) to a front end box?


Sure, but you're not using the "power servers" to do any of the
"processing for HD video playback", you're just using them as
file-servers. All the processing happens on the box with the
video spigot on it.

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 Post subject: Re: HD from Back End
PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:54 am 
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gatorback wrote:
Is there a way to stream HD video from the servers (Dual Xeon @ 2.8 Ghz running Vmware ESX) to a front end box?

True as grante says, but can I suggest getting a nice, quiet, thin hardware client capable of rendering HD media? I've been using a Buffalo Link Theater, with decent results.

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robxbox, Thank you for the excellent suggestion. I am going to check this option out.

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