I'm about to get a new MacBook Pro. <br>I'm trying to decide what to do with my Powerbook and how to upgrade my Myth box at the same time. <br>I started wondering if I couldn't turn the Powerbook into a small, nearly silent mythbackend.
<br>I don't do anything like transcode or commflag...I just want to be able to spool the MPEG2 video from my tuners to a firewire hard drive.<br><br>The laptop is a Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz with 1 GB of RAM (I'd put an upgrade to 2 in for this).
<br>I'd use a WinTV PVRUSB2 for analog tv and a HDHomeRun for digital.<br>I'd be using a 750 GB Seagate ATA133 drive inside a FireWire enclosure for recordings. <br>I'd run Fedora 7 PPC on it.<br><br>I'd also like to run Samba for generic file storage and Apache + PHP for Mythweb.
<br><br>Actual viewing would consist of me using Mythfrontend on the OS X side of the MBP I'll probably get soon.<br><br>My biggest concern is this:<br>Can I safely copy files from the MBP to a Samba share on such a setup while mythbackend records a channel over the HDHomeRun?
<br>Or would I run into some sort of issue (e.g. bandwidth / disk throughput / etc) that would give me headaches?<br><br><br>I dream of a world where two laptops gives me increased portability along with decreased noise, heat, and headaches (compared to my two desktops now)...hopefully that can happen.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Michael<br><br><br>