[mythtv] Streaming over network

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:54:00AM -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote:

> I'd like to set up a mythtv client that uses a large storage machine in my
> basement. It doesn't make sense to me to have a bunch of disk at each
> client. Has anyone had success storing and retrieving video streams over
> an ethernet network? Assuming I use 100Mb/s ethernet, is it enough to
> handle encoding and decoding at the same time? What protocol have people
> used, NFS?

Yes.

> Another question I had was has anyone tried a dual processor machine? It
> seems that would go a long way to handling the demands of encoding and
> decoding at the same time.

Encoding is very CPU-intensive.  Decoding is not.

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 - mdz