[mythtv] Streaming over network

Curtis Stanford mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri Jan 10 20:14:14 EST 2003


Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:54:00AM -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'd like to set up a mythtv client that uses a large storage machine in my
>>basement. It doesn't make sense to me to have a bunch of disk at each
>>client. Has anyone had success storing and retrieving video streams over
>>an ethernet network? Assuming I use 100Mb/s ethernet, is it enough to
>>handle encoding and decoding at the same time? What protocol have people
>>used, NFS?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>Another question I had was has anyone tried a dual processor machine? It
>>seems that would go a long way to handling the demands of encoding and
>>decoding at the same time.
> 
> 
> Encoding is very CPU-intensive.  Decoding is not.
> 

Granted. But is the encoding process suitably for parallelization or 
will it only utilize one CPU?




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