I travel out of the country for long periods and want to set some kind box of at my parents place.

What I'm looking for:

low power
quiet
low maintenance
web interface or vnc
pvr
proxy
stream live tv (slingbox)
ATSC
Dishtv


At first I thought a slingbox would work but the more I read it needs a large upload bandwidth for good quality sports. I've got a max of 512/up to work with. So I started to think about a pvr and I could just download the program after its recorded, maybe a myth box.

Any suggestions?

When I travel I sometimes use my Myth setup to record the show and then transcode it a smaller size. I then download to my computer or tvix box and watch it. For sports I've found there are a LOT of private streams on the net that individuals host. I watched most of my college football and basketball games live last year - sometimes there is some really funny blogging going on about the games from those hosting it (in a sidebar). You might want to check that out.

Any suggestions on how to find these streams?

Any suggestions on how to find these streams?

Google is your friend also check the your teams blogs, etc. They are out there.

I've found that Myth blows over the WAN and wish I also had a solution. I'm in France right now. Have plenty of bandwidth up and down back at home in the US, have plenty down here as well. Latency clocks in at about 160ms between the two locations over OpenVPN.

I've come to realize two things when playing with this throughout the world.

First- peering between the continents isn't like doing everything at home in the US. I run a speedtest here and I peg out at the 8Mb/s down and 1Mb/s up but there's something limiting the intercontinental stream- stops around 400KB/s per stream.

Second- Myth is downright stupid about its database interaction. Over high latency links (again,we're talking ~160ms, so it's not crazy) the way that the frontend talks to the backend takes FOREVER. Seems it's doing zillions of gets from the database sequentially.

With MP4 transcoded recordings, I can use the ASX stream from Mythweb fairly well. The Flash streaming option also works OK but has limits as to what it can do.

A family member is watching his TWC cable via slingbox with great quality from here and he has a lower bandwidth package than me (he has 10/1 or something and I have 15/15 via Fios).

It was much worse in Tokyo - I had a 1gbit internet connection and could downright haul ass around Japan - we're talking 50 megaBYTES! a second DL with just random stuff. Latency back home to US east coast was much higher of course and the peering was even worse- I couldn't break 1mbit.

Other than VLC, which is a pain to work with on an adhoc basis, I have yet to find much more I can do.

-Trouble