Server/Client Hardware

[chip33az]

Just curious if this setup will work.

I have a Via Epia M10000 with 512MB. I want to install Windows XP SP2, Java and the latest SageTV software. This will be my only box so it will be the server/client on my main TV.

I was going to use the EPIA's TV OUT for it, as well as a USB StreamZap remote.

Any issues that I should be aware of?

[CollinR]

Yes I doubt it'll work.

You might build a server and use that as a client though. You may still run into troubles if you compress your video. However I think some of the Epias have hardware support for MPEG4. It's possible you could add that compression support to SageTV without trouble.

Basically you could probably record using hardware or display using hardware but I kinda doubt you can pull off record/compress/commskip/decode/display on an Epia like that on Windows.

[chip33az]

The box is currently used as a MythTV server/frontend without any issues.

I don't have a tuner card yet, but will be using the Hauppauge 500 soon. That card will do the encoding so the EPIA processor shouldn't work too hard.

The EPIA has an MPEG2 decoder built in, so the processor should be okay when viewing TV shows or recordings.

While it doesn't have a tuner yet, I did copy MPGs to it and they playback without any issues.

I still need to get a DVD player for it as well, but budget constraints

I have it working well under Linux, but was curious about the TV OUT with the EPIA under Windows.

[CollinR]

Sounds like you will be able to get basic functionality working then.

Soon though you will want commskip and compression for storage (no longer MPEG2) and thats going to put a hurt on that CPU quick.

you might try running the device in SageTV service mode and use the client as the shell. This will remove the load from explorer.exe and allow you to take advantage of the addition shell support options.

[cvitech]

I was thinking about using that configuration as a client. At my work I had access to the Mini-ITX motherboards. I discovered that from the specs it should work as a client but in reality it was very poor performance. Especially with the via chip set. I tried several different types of mini-itx motherboards with different processors and had the same results (cannot remember which ones but they all had the via chip set). As a Sage server I think that will be a no go. You might give it try anyway since you have the equipment but I wouldn't bet the farm on it until you have tested it (I could of misconfigured something since this was in my early sage days).