[mythtv-users] mythtv backend on a laptop?

[Ian Forde]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 21:01, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> MythTV will support any card or device supported by the V4L kernel 
> subsystem, as well as the ivtv driver.  I believe there are some USB 
> webcams that are supported by V4L, but I don't know if there are any 
> supported USB tuners.  One problem is that USB 1.1 doesn't really have 
> the bandwidth for full uncompressed NTSC video.

And having said that, I know of at least one laptop docking station
(it's for one of the newer Thinkpad models) that can accept a PCI card. 
So if you've got a newer think pad with said docking station, and want
to use that for a myth backend... ;)

Personally, my thoughts on this are that backend boxes are exactly that
- backend.  They sit on the backend and are rarely seen.  So they can be
the big bulky server-type boxes, while frontends can be xboxen, pundits,
and regular motherboards in sexy cases (coolermaster, ahanix, etc...)  I
wouldn't waste a laptop (even an old one!) on a mythbackend.  I'd use it
for a firewall instead. ;)

	-Ian