While that looks really impressive, why do you need all that to watch 6 videos at once? I've done that myself on my SD system with a $99, 100mbit netgear wireless router and a $25 linksys switch, serving 3 desktop -ish machines, and 3 wirelss laptops acting as the rest of the front ends. This all coming from 1 backend (a
2.8ghz, 400mhz fsb P4 and 512mb/ram). It was displaying live tv on 3 of the front ends (from the three tuners in the only backend server), and the other three were watching recorded tv shows. It wasn't transcoding, but it was commercial flagging the three live tv shows, and I guess this wasn't going on while I was monitoring 8 security cameras, but still.
<br><br>Maybe some of you awe inspired people can fill me in on the difficulty here. As far as my understanding goes, if this system is dealing with HD content, the backends are really just copying the data to a hard drive, and passing it on, and it's the front ends that do all the work. I guess it just appears to me that you built a network thats 100x stronger than you'll ever need, and it's just going to idle along. It's like the 60 year old greasy Italian guy I saw stalling his '07 Corvette ZO6, only to put off at 25mph in a 55mph zone last weekend.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gary Dawes</b> <<a href="mailto:gary.dawes@gmail.com">gary.dawes@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;">
we are not worthy! I can only dream.... Obviously your wife is a lot more "tuned in" than most of our's!<br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_115ce34c6bd7b423_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Jeffery Swan</b> <<a href="mailto:scientist@engineer.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
scientist@engineer.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span class="e" id="q_115ce34c6bd7b423_3">
This is just a quick post for anyone interested in my (quite large) MythTV setup and extras. I have had many people ask me for details so I set up a Blog at:
<br><br><a href="http://ultimatemythtv.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ultimatemythtv.wordpress.com/</a><br><br>The Blog is pretty new but I will add content as time allows. I also have a spot where I talk about future upgrades and modules I would like to add. So,
<br>If you are interested in a nearly 10 TB system, check it out.<br><br>As always comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged (to my personal email not this group as it would be off topic).<br><br>-Jeff<br><br>
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