[mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record

[Kevin Kuphal]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Friday 28 October 2005 8:09, we4 at uakron.edu wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>    I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm 
>>    looking for so 
>>maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend 
>>and have 
>>2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each 
>>with a 
>>wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only 
>>occur on 
>>the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the 
>>frontends to 
>>be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? 
>>The 
>>reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start 
>>recording 
>>then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i 
>>only want 
>>the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the 
>>frontends for 
>>tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks 
>>in advance 
>>for any help you guys could offer!
>>    
>>
>
>It sounds like the frontends are not beefy enough to handle software 
>encoding even for recording, so LiveTV using the cards in the frontend 
>is probably out of the question as well.
>
As I'm thinking about it, another option would be to swap.  Put the 
PVR-250s into the frontends where hardware encoding can happen and move 
the BTTV cards into the backend which may have the juice to do dual 
recordings (my athlon 2000 can do it).

Kevin