[mythtv-users] live tv over network?

[Phill Wiggin]

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David/Curt,

~    I'm running a 2 tuner (PVR-250/bttv) backend and flawlessly stream
across a 100Mb LAN to my xbox as well as over a 54G connection to my
laptop.  I haven't seen any skips or stutters.  Having said that, my
laptop is in close proximity to my AP, so YMMV.

Phill

Curt Parker wrote:

| David, I regularly watch live TV on my PC client streamed from my
| PC server over a 100Mb connection with no problems.  I only see
| problems when I attempt to do the same using an 11Mb wireless
| connection, and then it is almost good enough.  It skips every 30
| seconds, so I belive that double that bandwidth would be sufficient
|  (theoretically... the next step up is 54Mb). Anyone have
| experience with a 54Mb wireless connection?  If it works, I may get
| myself an 802.11G wireless bridge.
|
| Curt
|
| David Huseby wrote:
|
|> I've read the documentation extensively but nowhere is it
|> explicit about the roles of the front end and back end software.
|> From what I gather, the back-end coordinates recording of shows
|> and streaming of recorded shows and the front-end handles
|> displaying streams as well as interacting with the services the
|> back-end offers (i.e. MythGames, MythMusic, etc...)  One thing
|> I'd like to know...Is it possible to have a capture card in the
|> back-end and watch live TV using a front-end connected to my TV
|> with some network between the two? I also noticed that I can have
|> many back-end capture cards, all hooked up to different sources.
|> Here's my planned layout and I'd like comments and
|> recommendations from the rest of you:
|>
|> - I will have a single large capacity (1+TB RAID) disk server
|> running the master back-end server. - I will have two slave
|> back-end servers, each with two MPEG2 hardware capture cards.
|> One will be connected to two DirecTV receivers with channel
|> control via serial.  The other will be connected to a Sony HD-100
|> terrestrial HD receiver (channel control via serial) and CCTV
|> from my security system (2 different cameras multiplexed into a
|> single picture.) - I will have a Hush mini-ITX box for each of my
|> TVs.  One will be connected to my Mitsu 55" HDTV running (540p
|> interleave to drive the 1080i picture), the other will be
|> connected to a regular TV elsewhere in the house. - My house is
|> wired with a switched gigabit ethernet network so bandwidth isn't
|> the problem.  All computers have gigabit cards in them, except
|> the mini-ITX boxes which have built-in 100baseT.
|>
|> I was hoping to be able to watch live TV from any of the four
|> sources assuming that nothing is being recorded from the one I
|> want to watch (unless of course I'm watching what is being
|> recorded.)  If this is possible how does myth front-end handle
|> displaying the channel listing for the 2 different sources of TV
|> (normal DirecTV and terrestrial HDTV broadcasts)?  Has anybody
|> tried a similar setup with multiple sources on the back-end and
|> front-end display via network?
|>
|> Thanks for any feedback and/or helpful suggestions.
|>
|> Dave
|>
|>
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