Wow, this user group is impressive! Keep the suggestions coming if you have any more!<br><br>I like the idea of having a separate backend box, but I'm concerned about the increase in cost. I've never used MythTV, so maybe I should just have it all on one system (in case for some reason I don't like it, which I doubt), and then, if it's too loud or I need more space, I could expand to have a backend too?
<br><br>What all would be involved with having a backend? How does that connect to the front end? Anybody have any specs of their own?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</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;">
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:29, Jon Sustar wrote:<br>>> > What types of broadcasts do you want to record, HiDef or Standard TV.<br>>><br>>> Standard TV<br>><br>> If you use tuners that do MPEG-2 (or MPEG-4, but that's rarer) encoding in
<br>> hardware, the CPU and disk space requirements for this will be low<br>> compared<br>> to what you'd need for HD content. You could probably get by with a<br>> ~600MHz<br><br> True. However if you want to transcode this into something smaller
<br>then any CPU horsepower you throw into the whole system will go to good<br>use. Also keep in mind that any Linux box on the home network can be a<br>transcoding slave (much like SETI @ home).<br><br> If you can tolerate the divx compression artifacts you can get a 4:1
<br>increase in your effective storage. So, even an Athlon 64 X2 might pay<br>for itself in terms of effective disk capacity.<br><br>[deletia]<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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