[mythtv-users] Can MythTV do this?

[Kerry Wilson]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Kris Cote wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Chris Petersen" <lists at forevermore.net>
>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV do this?
>>
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>>> 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?
>>>     
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>> One backend could theoretically do it, but you'd probably need more to
>> just host the tuner cards.
>>
>>
>> You'd need one tuner for every tv that would be displaying live tv at
>> any given time.
>>
>> So 75 backends with 4 tuner cards each?
>>
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> Perhaps.  I think the guys at one of the other PVR software places 
> recently blogged about an 11 tuner system using a combination of PVR-500 
> (2 tuner / PCI) and USB tuners.  With hardware encoding, you could 
> easily go above 4 tuners per backend.  I think your limitations come 
> more in the bandwidth writing to disk and serving the content out. 
>
> You can easily address the disk writing limitations by moving away from 
> local storage on the backend to something more SAN like using 
> FiberChannel. 
>
> I think you can also address the serving/network bandwidth by using 
> non-backend NFS servers to share the aforementioned storage.  While the 
> frontend does need to talk to the backend systems for things like 
> scheduling, etc., if it has local access to the files via NFS shares, it 
> will use that for distribution leaving the backends alone.
>
> I imagine part of the challenge of using Myth for this type of 
> environment will boil down more to the questions of security and how do 
> you prevent those 300 users from disabling other users scheduling rules, 
> deleting content, or otherwise mucking about.  The system isn't designed 
> for disparate users but more of a common househould...
>
> Something to think about.
>
> Kevin
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You would need about 30 of these:

http://blogs.snapstream.com/2006/01/18/godzilla-pvr/

Personally, I would kind of like to see that!