[mythtv-users] Building a MythTV Box

Douglas Wagner douglasw0 at gmail.com
Mon May 21 16:51:44 UTC 2007


On 5/21/07, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/07, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip />
>
> > Hate to "OT" This for a second but i'm going to anyway..:)
> >
> > Which device needs the horsepower?  Is it the backend to record or the
> > frontend to play back?  I thought it was the frontend that needed the
> high
> > CPU for HD playback..can you really get away with putting a big backend
> > somewhere and then small frontends for playback?  Or is this only in the
> Low
> > Def world?
> >
> > I've considered splitting my frontend / backend for quite a while (don't
> > have the money to do it yet) but this intrigues me.
>
> if you have capture cards that do the processing for you (DVB,
> Hauppauge, HDHR) you can get away with minimal processor power on your
> backend, assuming that's where your cards reside.  if you want to do
> transcoding and/or commercial flagging you may 'want' more power, but
> don't really need it as long as you're willing to wait for those jobs.
> the frontend needs the more power to actually play the HD content...
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Is a macmini a viable enough device for this playback then?  I get they're a
duo-core, but I thought they were pretty low end...

--Douglas Wagner
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