<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Since you have PVR 350's, you don't really need the XvMC video cards
either, as you can just use the built in MPEG2 decoding onboard. I
have used a P3 500 with a PVR 350 and had no apparent problems with
speed. (I don't think it matters, but my videos are stored across the
network via an NFS share).</div></blockquote><div><br>True, though keep in mind that, AFAIK, video output for the PVR 350s may not be supported in the future (currently I don't believe anyone is working on it, and so unless someone steps up, it'll go unsupported). I could be wrong, though, so it's something to check in to.
<br><br>It also depends on if you want to set up slave backends, or just throw everything in one big master. I went with the latter option, since that means I don't need coax at any of the frontends. But with those 350s, slave backends are certainly something to consider.
<br><br>Brett.<br></div></div><br>