[mythtv-users] Can MythTV do this?

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 19:56:46 UTC 2006


On 1/30/06, James C. Dastrup <jc at dastrup.com> wrote:
>
> > 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....
>

I'd just like to point out that you can watch from "Watch Recordings" while
it's recording, so you'd really only need one tuner.  The bandwidth and
processor speed are definitely problems though.

--
It was supposed to be so Easy.
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