I'm seeing this late, but why not use a MiniITX system for this, instead of a laptop? On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Shane wrote: > Hello all, > > I am looking for a device which is able to stream audio and > video from a central server to a home theatre with a > minimum of quality loss. There appear to be devices which > do this via ethernet or wlan but all seem to require a > piece of software on the server side to export the content > which wouldn't work in the case of a Linux server. > Further, the audio output on these things seem to be all > rca lr where I'd be looking for spdif or optical capable of > transmitting ac3 directly for 5.1 output and lossless > stereo. > > I toyed with putting a pc into the home theatre room but > it's too big and won't fit into the stereo cabinet. My > latest idea is a laptop with a wireless network running > Linux with a bluetooth keyboard and software speech. The > laptop should be thin enough to fit into the stereo stand. > I'm just not sure whether Linux will be able to support the > spdif and s/video outputs on the notebook and there's also > the noise of the hard drive to consider. > > Have others undertaken the computer integration project. > Perhapse there is a wireless media receiver out there I > don't know about which can stream from a Samba or nfs > share. > > Best, > Shane > > >
