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<pre wrap="">Message: 8
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:18:02 +0100
From: "Daniel Carter" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Two-backends with two-frontends on one
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On 10/07/07, Brad DerManouelian <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com"><myth@dermanouelian.com></a> wrote:
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<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Of course, the best option is to use master and slave backends so you get
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>the best use of all your tuner cards, then put each of your recordings into
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>their own group and only display the group you want to see. Sharing is good.
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<pre wrap="">> If you use recording groups to solve the recording schedule seperation, then
> why the need for master and slave backends? Put all your tuner cards in one
> machine to save on hardware costs and power usage etc.</pre>
I have several reasons.... <br>
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* Redundancy. I don't want to ever lose all my shows again due to
hardware failure (once is enough!) , and yes, I'm using RAID 1 too.
If I had one machine and it lost a motherboard, I'd lose all
functionality. If I have two machines and only one goes out, at least
I'm not dead in the water.<br>
* I prefer the PVR-250 instead of the PVR-500 (better quality video
from what I've seen). Also, since I want a four tuner setup, getting a
motherboard these days that can support a decent processor AND provide
four PCI slots has proven difficult, if not impossible.<br>
* Since I want to eventually upgrade to HDTV, I want to have some
wiggle room in the machines to add new components, like new drives.<br>
* Since I plan to do commercial skipping (and transcoding here and
there), I want to make sure I'm not affecting my four tuner cards when
I do.<br>
* It's easier to keep two less-full machines cooler than it is one
mega-machine.<br>
* Cost isn't really an issue for me, I'd prefer to have the two
machines that I can grow with rather than one machine that is full from
the get go.<br>
<br>
I like the idea of recording groups. I wasn't able to glean from the
MythTV docs exactly how recording groups work, so I guess I'll have to
try them and see if that handles it for me. From what I can tell from
the docs, you can pull up lists of recordings by group, but I can't
find anything that says how to assign groups. When I schedule
recurring recordings, can I assign each one to a group? Can you assign
things to more than one group? Can you view things in other groups if
necessary? Just not sure how groups work at all...<br>
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-- Jay<br>
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