We have 8 satellite feeds. So we don't necessarily want 8 backends, however we want 8 capture cards hooked up (somehow) to the hardware we have below.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</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><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Michael Johnson wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I am doing a fairly large deployment of mythtv at work and I am looking for<br>
> any pointers that may help us out. So far we have the following hardware for<br>
> a mythtv cluster and we are now debating over the hd5500 or the WinTV-HD<br>
> capture cards. We want 8x backends 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 ethernet<br>
> cables from frontend to the display via HDMI over ethernet thus leaving 1<br>
> ethernet cable free for IR and maybe something else.<br>
><br>
> In Question:<br>
> * What is the length limit on an IR reciever cable?<br>
><br>
</div></div>Why on earth do you want to have eight backends? Are you setting these up to be<br>
completely independant of each other? It's not necessary, and you will be<br>
duplicating files and effort.<br>
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Mike Perkins<br>
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