On 1/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James C. Dastrup</b> <<a href="mailto:jc@dastrup.com">jc@dastrup.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Can MythTV be used to feed say, an apartment complex of 300 suites? What<br>> type of hardware could be used? How many backend servers would be needed?<br>><br>><br><br>Wow, sounds like a cool project. But think of the limitations. Let's just pretend
<br>that there was a certain popular NFL game coming up, where most of the units<br>will be watching it live. You would need well over 200 tuners! Plus, if they want to<br>watch it in HD, that's 20 Mbit/sec network traffic to each unit!. 4 Gibit/sec
<br>sustained transfer rate. You will have the largest server farm of myth servers<br>every imagined. Yes, it could do it with the distributed architecture that Myth<br>provides, assuming there aren't any built-in limitations, but seriously....
<br></blockquote></div><br>I'd just like to point out that you can watch from "Watch Recordings" while it's recording, so you'd really only need one tuner. The bandwidth and processor speed are definitely problems though.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>It was supposed to be so Easy.