SilentPower Savant :: Features
The information on this page should be interpreted as a "human readable translation" of the
hardware and
software pages, and it contains
the differentiator features of our SilentPower Savant product.
Hardware related:
Software related:
- PC automatically...
- ...starts the mediacenter software (MythTV).
- ...shuts-down when user exits the mediacenter software, unless other users are still logged in.
- ...powers-up to record your favorite TV show, then shuts-down.
- ...powers-up/shuts-down at predefined hours.
- MythTV software has:
- Basic 'live-TV' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
- Backwards recording. Timeshifting and recording are one and the same. If you press the record button 10 min into the show, the previous 10 minutes are also recorded. More info...
- Distributed architecture allowing multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent to the user.
- Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping.
- Grabs program information from the Internet using xmltv.
- Basic video editing abilities. Optional transcoding to remove the commercials from the video file to save space.
- Text search (TV program) based recording.
- Timing based recording.
- Program finder to quickly and easily find the shows you want to record.
- Electronic Program Guide (EPG) that lets you change channels and select programs to record.
- Scheduled recordings of TV programs, and playback and deletion of those programs, all through a themeable UI.
- Browse and resolve recording conflicts.
- Rip, categorize, play, and visualize MP3/Ogg/FLAC/CD Audio files. (FLAC, Vorbis, and MP3 encoding). Create complex playlists (and playlists containing playlists) through a simple UI.
- An image viewer/slideshow application.
- A universal video player module, with automatic metadata lookups.
- A DVD player / ripper module. Make perfect backups, or transcode down to smaller file sizes.
- An RSS news feed reader module.
- A nice web interface to let you select programs to record remotely.
- Complete list including screenshots.
- Gentoo OS
- One of the top Linux distributions.
- Once installed, there is no need to migrate to a new version. You can always be up2date. Read the (short) Gentoo "about us" section.