[mythtv-users] My whole house setup

[Josh White]

While that looks really impressive, why do you need all that to watch 6
videos at once?  I've done that myself on my SD system with a $99, 100mbit
netgear wireless router and a $25 linksys switch, serving 3 desktop -ish
machines, and 3 wirelss laptops acting as the rest of the front ends.  This
all coming from 1 backend (a 2.8ghz, 400mhz fsb P4 and 512mb/ram).  It was
displaying live tv on 3 of the front ends (from the three tuners in the only
backend server), and the other three were watching recorded tv shows.  It
wasn't transcoding, but it was commercial flagging the three live tv shows,
and I guess this wasn't going on while I was monitoring 8 security cameras,
but still.

Maybe some of you awe inspired people can fill me in on the difficulty
here.  As far as my understanding goes, if this system is dealing with HD
content, the backends are really just copying the data to a hard drive, and
passing it on, and it's the front ends that do all the work.  I guess it
just appears to me that you built a network thats 100x stronger than you'll
ever need, and it's just going to idle along.  It's like the 60 year old
greasy Italian guy I saw stalling his '07 Corvette ZO6, only to put off at
25mph in a 55mph zone last weekend.

On 10/23/07, Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> we are not worthy! I can only dream.... Obviously your wife is a lot more
> "tuned in" than most of our's!
>
> On 23/10/2007, Jeffery Swan < scientist at engineer.com> wrote:
>
> > This is just a quick post for anyone interested in my (quite large)
> > MythTV setup and extras. I have had many people ask me for details so I set
> > up a Blog at:
> >
> > http://ultimatemythtv.wordpress.com/
> >
> > The Blog is pretty new but I will add content as time allows. I also
> > have a spot where I talk about future upgrades and modules I would like to
> > add. So,
> > If you are interested in a nearly 10 TB system, check it out.
> >
> > As always comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged (to my
> > personal email not this group as it would be off topic).
> >
> > -Jeff
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