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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">How much power do I need in a frontend machine to play into an SD TV but<br>with source that is HD? Is that just as difficult as playing full HD? How<br>
much computing power will I need here? Can the remote computer be a windows<br>machine (Like my wife's desktop?)<br></blockquote>
<div>If your backend doesnt transcode the file to something lower, you will need a either a faster processor or a video card very good at scaling. I had a frontend which was an XP2200+ with GF4 Ti4200 and it would studder on a recorded HD file that the stream was 1080i. regardless if I had it connected to my HDTV @ 1080p which would need no scaling, or connected to a monitor which was limited to 1024x768, it had the same stutter pattern, </div>
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<div>It has been a while since I have played with the windows executable as a frontend, so cant say how it is, but the old version had next to no features and did not act as a full frontend. but maybe a dualboot frontend, or some of the livecd or boot off a flash drive versions of Myth like Knoppmyth might work in that case.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span><br>Also, how much computing power for the main frontend machine? This one will<br>drive the 720p projector.</blockquote>
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<div>Will your streams you record be 720p? I havent tried intel processors, but in AMD 720p and 1080i seems to stutter on anything less than a 3ghz equiv processor, ie AMD 3000+ and a decent video chipset not on the PCI bus (PCI-E or AGP or directly on the Mboard chipset)</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span><br><br>I am looking at this split configuration so that I can have a low power<br>(watts) solution. Perhaps I should just build one monster and use suspend<br>
to save power. Does that work and is it easy to use (like works<br>automatically)?</blockquote>
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<div>Well in my case I power on my frontend only machines as needed and leave my backend on 24x7, and I do watch the power levels drop on my UPS when its idle because the motherboard does have cool & quiet enabled.</div>
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