[mythtv-users] Confusion about Output Cards.

[Warren]

Nick Ellson wrote:
> It certainly sounds like I will have some trial and error testing infront 
> of me. The system will be ready this next Thursday, in a 4U chassis that 
> must go in the garage. Getting cable (analog) to it is easy, it comes into 
> the house near my cabinet. But it is 60 feet to the back of my Sony Wega 
> under the house, so I will have to figure out how best to get playback 
> done.
>
> I see expensive HDMI cables meeting my length requirements, but if the 
> internal capacitance degrades the signal...
>
> I already have one RCA video drop from my TV-out on my GeoVision home 
> security system, and that looks just like the VGA screen, but then it is a 
> security camera after all ;)
>
> I will have S-Video output available on the G-Force card I will be using. 
> I could hit my local Norvac/Greybar and find some quality cable that meets 
> the conductor/shield requirements to make a HCC from wall to wall.
>
> I tried testing with the 2.4Ghz Video transmitters from X10/Radio Shack.. 
> Heh.. The video was pretty good for small spans of time, but you have to 
> curb your hunger for Microwaved Popcorn! ;) I don't think I saw more than 
> 3-7 contiguous pixels of real video when the wife fired up the TV dinner.
>
> Now, what I am curious about is this idea of a remote client for playback. 
> Can Myth TV integrate a larger capture system and have a smaller playback 
> PC do the output?
>
> Nick
>
>
>   
Yes.

That is what I am in the process of doing at home right now.  I had 2
replayTVs and a DVArchive server in the basement.  I have put a MythTV
backend in the basement with 2 (for now) capture cards.  For the
frontends I am going to be using systems very much like a VIA
EPIA-M10000 for playback with no capture cards at all - the video will
be streamed (myth) or grabbed over NFS from the old DVArchive boxes
(mythvideo) to the front-end clients.

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