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

[Travis Kelley]

There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to use a pvr in the
diskless frontend.  You'd obviously have to leave the frontend on all
the time if you wanted to be able to record or either have it wake up to
record but other than that....the only other pitfal would be that it
would generate a fair amount of network traffic if it was recording and
watching something at the same time.  Not really a problem if you are
using wired network.  I have a Dlink wireless G network and its able to
handle this load as well but I suppose if you had a little interference
on your wireless and less than optimal transfer rates it might be a
problem.

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:22, Peter Lee wrote:
> 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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