[mythtv-users] recommendations?: energy efficient FE/BE system

[Roger Heflin]

I have an FM2 processor and the AM1's appear to have similar video hw.
     My fm2 does appear to do most of the hard work in the GPU.      I
have an old nvidia ion, an ecs liva, and a fm2 combined FE/BE.     The
FM2 is nice as the full sized board has 8 AMD supplied sata ports that
appear to work flawlessly.     With a high grade green power supply
mine does not appear to be that power hungry.   And the cpus are
powerful enough that I can also transcode things to codec's that use
considerably space.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi James,
>
> Friday, February 20, 2015, 7:32:27 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>
>>> I don't know how powerful those devices are, but I do all my
>>> transcoding on my normal (6 core athlon) desktop machine even though
>>> my backend (dual core) could probably do it too. I can with no problem
>>> do 4 transcodings at the same time and stil work uninterrupted.
>>> Just have a slave backend running on the machine you want to use for
>>> transcoding and disable transcoding on the master.
>
>> Thanks for your reply, Hika. It sounds like you're describing a scenario
>> where the front and back ends are separated, right? If so, I'd like to
>> keep the combination FE/BE set-up I have, which is why I was asking about
>> whether the ECS hardware would be up to the task of rescaling while
>> simultaneously recording. It seems possible it might be, since the ECS
>> system Dave described was said to be a combination FE/BE, like mine. Just
>> was hoping to get a clarification from him (or someone else) on that
>> before looking further into this option.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> Yes, mine are separated, but also when combined you can delegate tasks
> to a slave backend, on a computer that you normally use for other
> things. That's the nice thing of how mythtv is set up and the fact
> that all your computers are linked through the network. You could have
> six backends and only one frontend on one of those backends or only
> one combined one etc., etc.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
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