Small file/media server advice

[foxorroxors]

I really would like a low power file server to serve my blu ray player connected to my tv as its becoming a chore putting films onto usb stick. plus it could serve the kids blu ray in her room and save my ears from verbal none sense =)

was thinking of getting a second hand embedded atom d330 mobo/cpu in itx form and squashing it into a small case with a 2tb drive. since their like 30 quid on that auction site we all know with ram too so could prob build the whole system for £130 which would be nice. plus im right in thinking there would be no need for the atom to transcode or anything as the blu ray does all that itself if its the right format?

both blurays are dlna.

basicly just wanna know if the atom can serve up two media files to two blu rays at the sametime, 720p format or lower.

 

[ASE001]

I use an old AMD Athlon 3200 single core processor with 2Gbytes of DDR2 ram, running NAS4FREE and I've been able to stream 1 HD and 2 SD movies at the same time. Didn't seem to have any issues while doing it either. I have previous ripped the movies to mpg 2 first.

 

[Cycrow]

if it doesn't need to transcode then an atom will be perfectly fine to serve the files.

you dont really need much in the way of CPU power to do that.

And if the media is already in the correct format for the devices that are playing them, then no transcoding is needed