Unless you are planning on doing encoding in software, that is
definitely overkill. If you use capture cards that do
hardware encoding, like the Hauppauge PVR line of cards, the backend
doesn't need much processor power at all.<br>
<br>
The frontend is where serious processing power can be needed.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Anand_Inala@dell.com">Anand_Inala@dell.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Anand_Inala@dell.com">
Anand_Inala@dell.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">All,</font>
</p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm considering building a client server
setup for mythtv and am wondering how appropriate a xeon processor
(2.8ish GHz) would be for the back end. Is it overkill?
Eventually, I'd like the setup to basically include everything myth has
to offer (dvd jukebox, emulators, etc), and to be able to record 2
steams of video while watching a 3rd (possibly with an HD card in there
too).</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Andy</font>
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