[mythtv-users] Combined Backend/Multiple frontend

[Bruce Collie]

On Monday 22 November 2004 12:14, Weston, Toby (ELS) wrote:
> mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org wrote:
> > I am currently renovating a house and I am looking at potential
> > solutions for distributing tv/music/photos etc to any tv, and
> > stumbled across MythTV. Being a long time linux fan, I wondered if it
> > were possible to create a large backend box with several cpus, that
> > could handle the PVR stuff and driver all tvs in the house.
> >
> > Setup would be
> > - Dual Athlon 64
> > - 1-2GB RAM
> > - Two PVR 250/350 cards
> > - Three or more AGP/PCI graphics cards with TV out
> > - Multiple IR sender/receiver one for each TV.
> >
> > Each graphics card would be assigned a different X display and a
> > separate instance of MythTV frontend running.
> >
> > Would this setup be possible?
> > Has anybody tried it out?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bruce P.B Collie
>
> Hi,
>
> Just to be clear, you intend to have the graphics cards in seperate front
> end machines right? 1 per front end? I understood these would basically
> just read from the shared/networked disk on the backend and display the
> recordings via their TV out. Other than that, MythTV's all geared up for
> frontend/backend style distribution, lots of people are using it that way
> (they'll probably be able to tell you more).
>
> Cheers,
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I was intending in having the graphics cards in the backend machine as well

Bruce.