[mythtv-users] large mythtv deployment

[Michael Johnson]

We have 8 satellite feeds. So we don't necessarily want 8 backends, however
we want 8 capture cards hooked up (somehow) to the hardware we have below.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
> wrote:

> Michael Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am doing a fairly large deployment of mythtv at work and I am looking
> for
> > any pointers that may help us out. So far we have the following hardware
> for
> > a mythtv cluster and we are now debating over the hd5500 or the WinTV-HD
> > capture cards. We want 8x backends and 8x frontends.
> >
> > Hardware:
> > 1 x Quad core 2.8Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk
> > 2 x Quad core 2.4Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk
> > 2 x Dual core 2.4Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk
> > 8 x 3Ghz / 4Gram / 120G
> > 1 x appletv frontend
> > 1 x ps3 frontend
> >
> > Plan:
> > Keep all the frontends and backends in a single room and run 3 ethernet
> > cables from frontend to the display via HDMI over ethernet thus leaving 1
> > ethernet cable free for IR and maybe something else.
> >
> > In Question:
> > * What is the length limit on an IR reciever cable?
> >
> Why on earth do you want to have eight backends? Are you setting these up
> to be
> completely independant of each other? It's not necessary, and you will be
> duplicating files and effort.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
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