[mythtv] Is it possible to install mythtv to a PC without a TV card and use as a "client"
Randy Page
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:07:01 -0700
On Friday 13 December 2002 07:50 pm, Colin Panisset wrote:
> Gaah! Why would you want to pipe decoded video across the network? That's
> horribly wasteful of bandwidth! Have the client decode the video.
Hmm. Yeah, I can see that would would certainly save on bandwidth, but on an
internal 100 meg lan would it really be an issue (I'm asking here, not trying
to be a smartass)? I guess it could certainly become an issue if you had
many streams playing. I think the determining factor would be the codec used
for playback, resolution, framerate, etc.
> > Course I could be right out to lunch though...... ;-).
>
> Well, I'm just about right out to beer, so take my $0.02 with a grain of
> salt :)
And after a long day of moving exchange mailboxes from one server to another
manually, I'm heading out for a few nice pint's of Rickard's Red myself ;-).
Randy