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Serving EyeTV data from NSLU2
Authored by: victory on Aug 19, '04 07:43:43AM
One other interesting use of the NSLU2 for EyeTV owners:

At home, I have a desktop Mac with an EyeTV USB that I use as a central PVR to record my favorite shows. I always thought it would be great to have the EyeTV app save it's recordings to a shared folder on a fileserver (such as on the NSLU2) instead of the Mac's local HD. The idea was to allow me to watch these recorded shows on another Mac (using either the EyeTV app or the Quicktime player), by pointing to that same network folder.

Well, I regret to report that the NSLU2 doesn't quite have the processing muscle to allow proper recording/playback of EyeTV MPEG-1 files WHILE HANDLING FILE I/O FROM ANOTHER NETWORK CLIENT. In other words, it's not a good idea to have EyeTV record directly to a shared folder on the NSLU2 since it may get interrupted when attempting to serve another client.

What I'm experimenting with at this point is to have the desktop Mac (with the EyeTV box) record directly to local HD as usual, but have a nightly cron script run a utility to mirror/synchronize the local EyeTV data files with copies on a shared folder on the NSLU2. Thus far, I'm able to play these copies smoothly (assuming I'm the only one accessing the NSLU2) on my PBG4 over an 802.11g link.

NOTE: Two clarifications:

1. I'm not implying the EyeTV will work by attaching it directly to the NSLU2 box (it won't). You still need to have the EyeTV attached to a Mac as usual.

2. I'm trying to find a way to watch pre-recorded shows, NOT watch a live TV stream from the EyeTV. For live streaming and control, try something like this

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