Hi all, I am looking to get the best way of watching movies on the TV downstairs. Currently I steam video/audio down s-video and phono cables directly from the daddy PC upstairs, but am looking at building a dedicated HTPC for the living room. I am quite keen to have a Wireless solution, but would like to find out if the current bandwidth offerred by Wireless would be enough to stream a DIVX movie from the main box upstairs, via wireless and then direct through the HTPC onto the TV. Cheers, Javen
the 11.something mbits you get these days should be enough, to stream most divx i would have thought, as 10mbit seems to be plenty...obviously not if youre doing two huge file transfers at the same time, but apart from then it should be fine...
Or get a nice large Harddrive for the HTPC and use it as media storage. Although this will cause extra noise.
I had considered using a HDD in the HTPC, but mainly wanted to try to keep the noise down. My main uses for a local HTPC (as opposed to running direct from the main unit), was controllability, as well as function (i.e. easier to run a seperate box). I am looking to find a way to control the PC remotely, which is in another thread here. Javen
