Serviio

Greetings,

I am in the process of spec'ing a low power home server to manage (and hopefully stream) media. I was wondering, would a small, low power machine be out of range in terms of processor and graphics capabilities to stream video with a system like serviio? I would like to be able to stream to computers, tvs, and game consoles.

Thanks.

Matt

I'm using the HP MicroServer N40L. Not very powerful but it works great. I've inserted 4GB RAM, for a little extra. Serviio it's self doesn't require that much, but if you are going to use IIS or something else.

See the minimal requirements here:
http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... quirements

See my server here:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quic ... 6_div.HTML

I run Serviio (and a number of other things) on an Intel Atom D525 with 1GB of RAM. It's running a minimal version of Debian 6.0 and with the latest ffmpeg version it can transcode in real time to 720p. Most of the time that isn't even needed as the videos can simply be repackaged into a mpegts container so it more than meets my needs. But that will depend on what formats your devices support, and what formats your media is encoded in.

FWIW, this morning I am running Serviio 1.01 on an old EMachines box with a single core Celeron D (3.2 GHZ), windows XP and 1 GB memory ... I was expecting Max Headroom, but it works fine so far..watched HAHA tennis and BBC...I use this with a Sony N200 media player .. this computer was in a closet for 2 years, and works fine after some cleaning..