[mythtv-users] Can MythTV do this?

[Kris Cote]

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From: "James C. Dastrup" <jc at dastrup.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV do this?


> Can MythTV be used to feed say, an apartment complex of 300 suites? What
> type of hardware could be used? How many backend servers would be needed?
>
>

Wow, sounds like a cool project.  But think of the limitations. Let's just 
pretend
that there was a certain popular NFL game coming up, where most of the units
will be watching it live.  You would need well over 200 tuners! Plus, if 
they want to
watch it in HD, that's 20 Mbit/sec network traffic to each unit!.  4 
Gibit/sec
sustained transfer rate.  You will have the largest server farm of myth 
servers
every imagined.  Yes, it could do it with the distributed architecture that 
Myth
provides, assuming there aren't any built-in limitations, but seriously....

Yep, cool. Now, I didn't say it was a good idea. The internal network is 
comprised of 1gig ethernet to each suite with the appropriate QoS an CoS. 
So, the connectivity isn't really a concern. I know I could do this with a 
commercial product, but wheres the fun in that?


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Kris Cote - Storm3 Communications Inc.
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kris at storm3.com
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