[mythtv-users] Mutiple Backends on different Cable TV systems

Chris Ribe chrisribe at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 22:54:16 EST 2005


Upsteam bandwidth is the bottleneck, not the 3-4mbps downstream that you
get.

Of course, even if you got 3-4mbps up, that is really streching the limits
of usability.  Search for people's experience with frontend over 802.11b to
get an idea of what you are up against.

Of course,  that is somewhat irrelevant.  Unless you have a dedicated a) A
dedicated T3 for each backend, or b) Are willing to put up with really
crappy video quality, you aren't going to be able to remotely stream live
tv.

On 12/1/05, Dave Packham <dave.packham at utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Ok cool  I have 100meg Ethernet in my house and at work.  I can get
> 3-4megs from my desktop all the time.  I think that the streams should
> take less than that
>
> Ill play with it and let you know how it goes
>
> Dave Packham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:28 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mutiple Backends on different Cable TV
> systems
>
> On 12/01/05 15:59, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:43:14 -0700, Dave Packham wrote:
> >
> >>Can I install a backend at work with one cable channel lineup and my
> >>main back/front-end at home with another cable channel lineup and have
> >>them work together?
> >>
> >>They both have different channel lineups.
> >>
> >No reason that separate backends cannot have different lineups. We do
> it
> >all the time with different cards. Everything would be controlled from
> the
> >master backend. One of them would be a slave backend. The master would
> >hold the database.
> >I think the problem would be the storage of the programs recorded by
> the
> >slave machine. AIUI, all recordings are made to one folder.
> >
> per backend
>
> So, each backend can use a local filesystem for storage.  However, IMHO,
>
> if your upstream bandwidth isn't great enough to support real-time
> playback, watching will be a challenge.
>
> Mike
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