Thoughts on a set-top box

[rod]

I had considered using a router; capable of running OpenWRT and
containing a  USB port,  along with a USB sound device.

But in the end, I ran speaker wire.

I have a ranch house with a mostly unfinished basement running wire is easy.


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
<brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
>
> But he could pipe it to a digital system at each location and use a line out
> to the non-digital system.  Any old PC could fit the bill with a
> damnsmalllinux or other flavor and low low hardware requirements.  If you
> want it quiet and  clean, then any small, fanless, low-end set-top type
> boxes would do it.
>
> Brian Kelsay
>
> ________________________________
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf Of
> Monty J. Harder
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:52 PM
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Beals <andrew.beals at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Easy peasy linux solution:
>>
>> 1. Master running MPD service.
>> 2. Slaves grabbing the streaming audio off of MPD.
>
> Well, the problem is that "streaming audio" sounds an awful lot like a
> "digital system", and the original question was:
>
>> I'd like to have an option to pipe an audio stream from a cental PC to
>> various
>> non-digital audio systems around the house
>
> So I guess that's right out.
>
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