[mythtv-users] Epia M: diskless frontend or pvr-350-based back/front end?

[Peter Lee]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:15:09 +0100, Steven
<mythmail at richardstraat.homedns.org> wrote:
> 
> You could even make the EPIA a diskless combined slave backend/frontend.
> Using the PVR350 as a second tuner for recording and using it's tv-out
> for playback.
> But diskless would mean it won't do much if the backend is not there.
> All recordings and live-tv buffer would be on the master backend.

Ah, I was wondering about this possibility.  Does it really work well
to have a pvr-250/350 in diskless frontend?  This seems like it would
be a nice setup, since it would allow me to use the pvr-350 tv-out
while at the same time having the benefits of a diskless frontend.

> 
> I find the easiest, most flexible, way to setup a netbootable system
> like that is :
> - setup your system using a harddisk in the machine
> - once you got everything working as you want it to, move the diskimage
> over to the server
> - setup your netboot stuff on the server
> - Then remove the harddisk from your machine and configure it to do
> netbooting

OK, sounds like a good plan.  Thanks.

> If you want the use the frontend for other things than tv (like DVD or
> Divx playback) i'd recommend using the unichrome drivers anyway. It
> would not realy make a difference then if you put the pvr in the master
> backend or in the epia machine.

One question related to this: If I use the pvr-350 tv-out, would the
ME6000 have enough horsepower to display divx and dvds?

Thanks.

Peter


> Steven
> 
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