<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Close</b> <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.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;">
On 5/21/07, Douglas Wagner <<a href="mailto:douglasw0@gmail.com">douglasw0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><snip /><br><br>> Hate to "OT" This for a second but i'm going to anyway..:)<br>><br>> Which device needs the horsepower? Is it the backend to record or the
<br>> frontend to play back? I thought it was the frontend that needed the high<br>> CPU for HD playback..can you really get away with putting a big backend<br>> somewhere and then small frontends for playback? Or is this only in the Low
<br>> Def world?<br>><br>> I've considered splitting my frontend / backend for quite a while (don't<br>> have the money to do it yet) but this intrigues me.<br><br>if you have capture cards that do the processing for you (DVB,
<br>Hauppauge, HDHR) you can get away with minimal processor power on your<br>backend, assuming that's where your cards reside. if you want to do<br>transcoding and/or commercial flagging you may 'want' more power, but
<br>don't really need it as long as you're willing to wait for those jobs.<br>the frontend needs the more power to actually play the HD content...<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br><br>Is a macmini a viable enough device for this playback then? I get they're a duo-core, but I thought they were pretty low end...<br><br>--Douglas Wagner<br>