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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:23:46AM -0400, Eric N wrote:<br>> I'm planning my first MythTV setup with an HD-PVR 1212 already<br>> purchased. I have searched the mailing list archives and some users<br>
> have reported success using the zotac ion with intel atom processor as<br>> a combined FE/BE if you do not plan on comm flagging multiple shows at<br>> one time and have one capture device. I will have a fileserver and<br>
> general use pc in my office that could perform some of the tasks of<br><br></div> Setup mythjobqueue the "office pc" and don't even let the FE/BE<br>box do flagging jobs. Recording from the HD-PVR certainly won't tax<br>
the system any. The only concern might be disk space but you can host<br>that in your office PC too.<br><br> I have a FE/BE machine that runs a HD-PVR setup like this. It is<br>a slave backend one of my desktop machines in the home office is the<br>
master backend.<br><br><br></blockquote>
<div>Jedi, does the desktop PC contain any capture devices? I read in older versions of Myth that the master backend expected at least one capture device, and that some just set up a "dummy" capture device in the setup to get around that issue. Did you have to do something similar in your setup?</div>
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<div></div><br>Eric<br>