<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/15/2008 11:40 AM, Michael Johnson wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>
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> > Michael Johnson wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> I am doing a fairly large deployment of mythtv at work and I am<br>
> >> looking for any pointers that may help us out. So far we have the<br>
> >> following hardware for a mythtv cluster and we are now debating<br>
> >> over the hd5500 or the WinTV-HD capture cards. We want 8x<br>
> >> backends and 8x frontends.<br>
> ><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> > Why on earth do you want to have eight backends? Are you setting<br>
> > these up to be completely independant of each other? It's not<br>
> > necessary, and you will be duplicating files and effort.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> We have 8 satellite feeds. So we don't necessarily want 8 backends,<br>
> however we want 8 capture cards hooked up (somehow) to the hardware<br>
> we have below.<br>
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</div>Are you sure that will work? Are you absolutely certain that you're<br>
getting ATSC feeds from your satellite? And, if so, are you absolutely<br>
certain that these feeds are unencrypted? If the answer to either<br>
question is no, the HD-5500 (and likely--though I don't know the<br>
hardware--the WinTV-HD) won't work at all. Feel free to ignore me since<br>
it sounds like you have some special setup, so you probably know what<br>
you're doing, but I just thought I would mention it just in case.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>when I say satellite feed I mean we have 8 satellite receivers in a single room and we plan on controlling them with an ir blaster.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Oh, and BTW, the frontend is the part of Myth where the extra power is<br>
useful. My system has 2 backends (AMD Athlon XP 2400+ and AMD Athlon XP<br>
2000+ with 1GB and 512MB RAM, respectively) each with 2 pcHDTV HD-3000's<br>
and one frontend (AMD Athlon X2 6000+ with 2GB RAM). The only reason I<br>
have 2 backends is because I couldn't find a system (power supply and<br>
mobo) that could drive 3 or 4 HD-3000's without power issues (and, once<br>
I set it a 2nd backend, I liked the fact that it gave me a lot more room<br>
for hard drives/storage).</blockquote><div><br>We hope to have 6 feeds at 1080i and 2 at 720p. Do we even have enough computing power to do this?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Mike<br>
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