[mythtv-users] LiveTV auto recording? Harddrive filling up.

[Raphael Pooser]

Dag Nygren wrote:
>> You can dust off an old K6-2 500MHz and put it on a motherboard with 
>> ATA-66 IDE, or better yet stick a raid card in there.  Drop four hard 
>> drives each with 250GB for a TB of storage.  Put a GB enet card in.  
>> Don't even need it really, 10/100 would be fine.  leave the machine 
>> always on and mount those babies.
>> Man sometimes I wish I had a basement.  My k6-2 500 hasn't been used in 
>> over a year now.
>>     
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> Sure, I already have a NFS box downstairs, but I am already having 
> problems wit my Wifi connection (also doing the MySQL stuff).
>  That would be really pushing it.
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Wifi is sort of discouraged if you're using it for anything other than 
frontends.  If you're recording on one machine and then storing it over 
to another machine via wifi, you have to make sure the stream is pretty 
small before it leaves, i.e. you need to compress more.  Using wifi on a 
frontend for watching has the same requirements naturally; the stream 
can't have too much bandwidth.  I find if I have a show at 640x480 with 
full rtjpeg quality, taking about 3.8GB per hour, this is pretty hard to 
stream to a frontend via wifi - mpeg4 at lower but rate works much 
better.  Naturally, if you're trying to write the same stream to an NFS 
box and do commflagging and do transcoding, and do reading of yet 
another stream all over wifi, you're kind of screwed.  Hence I mentioned 
GBE.  Even 100Mbit should be fine I think (I made a mistake in my 
original post, 10/100: 10Mbit will be unacceptable.)
Raphael