[mythtv-users] large mythtv deployment

Michael Johnson ahze at ahze.net
Sat Nov 15 19:00:08 UTC 2008


On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Janne Grunau <janne-mythtv at grunau.be>wrote:

> On Saturday 15 November 2008 17:17:48 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
>
> do you want 8 backends or 8 capture cards? One of the dual core machines
> would be enough to serve as backend for 8 DVB/ATSC cards if you could
> connect them all. Depending on what you want to receive you don't even
> need 8 cards.
>
> > 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.
>




>
>
> Your plan seems to miss some facts. Why do you want to use 8 frontends
> if you have only three hdmi connections? I doubt anyone would want to
> use a frontend in a single room with all those computers above.


Let me give you some more detail about the plan:

We plan on using HDMI over ethernet which uses 2 ethernet cables and we want
to have a IR reciever with that which is why we need a 3rd ethertnet cable.
Which is why we have 3 ethernet cables going to each display.


>
>
> Please send a more detailed plan of that you want to do.
>
> > In Question:
> > * What is the length limit on an IR reciever cable?
>
> Probably a couple of meters but there are ethernet capable lirc devices.


great to know, I'll look for that.


>
>
> Janne
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