Media Server for a Personal Media Network
Hardware
These components are minimum specifications:
- AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz (Socket AM3 9MB 45NM 95W 2800MHZ Tray)
- Gigabyte A880 motherboard
- pcHDTV HD-3000 Card
- 3TB hard drive space (USB drives fine for media transfers)
- 8 GB DDR3 RAM
- Extremely quiet Noctua cooling fans
It is not difficult to purchase these components separately and
assemble them yourselves, along with a case, cooling fans, and a DVD drive.
(See the original 2008 media server specs.)
Software
- Samba for audio and video file serving
- SlimServer for audio streaming
- pchdtvr for
better-than VCR HDTV recording control
- ATSC tools that come with the HD-3000
- DVD backup and authoring tools
Last modified on 29 Mar 2011 by AO
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