<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Janne Grunau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:janne-mythtv@grunau.be">janne-mythtv@grunau.be</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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Saturday 15 November 2008 17:17:48 Michael Johnson wrote:<br>
> Hi,<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 over<br>
> the hd5500 or the WinTV-HD capture cards. We want 8x backends<br>
<br>
</div>do you want 8 backends or 8 capture cards? One of the dual core machines<br>
would be enough to serve as backend for 8 DVB/ATSC cards if you could<br>
connect them all. Depending on what you want to receive you don't even<br>
need 8 cards.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> and 8x frontends.<br>
><br>
> Hardware:<br>
> 1 x Quad core 2.8Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk<br>
> 2 x Quad core 2.4Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk<br>
> 2 x Dual core 2.4Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk<br>
> 8 x 3Ghz / 4Gram / 120G<br>
> 1 x appletv frontend<br>
> 1 x ps3 frontend<br>
><br>
> Plan:<br>
> Keep all the frontends and backends in a single room and run 3<br>
> ethernet cables from frontend to the display via HDMI over ethernet<br>
> thus leaving 1 ethernet cable free for IR and maybe something else.</div></blockquote><div><br><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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</div>Your plan seems to miss some facts. Why do you want to use 8 frontends<br>
if you have only three hdmi connections? I doubt anyone would want to<br>
use a frontend in a single room with all those computers above.</blockquote><div><br>Let me give you some more detail about the plan:<br><br>We plan on using HDMI over ethernet which uses 2 ethernet cables and we want to have a IR reciever with that which is why we need a 3rd ethertnet cable. Which is why we have 3 ethernet cables going to each display.<br>
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Please send a more detailed plan of that you want to do.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> In Question:<br>
> * What is the length limit on an IR reciever cable?<br>
<br>
</div>Probably a couple of meters but there are ethernet capable lirc devices.</blockquote><div><br>great to know, I'll look for that.<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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