[mythtv-users] My whole house setup

[Josh White]

Its Josh, not John, and I realized after sending that, my tone came off
differently than I intended.

I think it's a great setup, it's just that it seems like there's a lot of
stuff there to do not much more than my little bit of stuff can do.  It
seems to me that if I had all that stuff, I could do more with it than watch
6 movies simultaneously.

If I were to put all this effort into a system, I would wonder what it would
take to really push it.  By my quick count, there's 13 potential frontends
on the network (since there's a lot of windows machines that I'm assuming
can't act as front ends), and it would be more impressive if all 13 were all
used at the same time, putting all this bandwidth to the test.  By the
account of the creator, there's little chance even half of that would be
used at any one time, and it's not clear just how many of the systems are
actually myth frontends. Say this setup was in a hotel or something, where
it could see some serious use, then that would be truly impressive.

What would you say to a guy with the 20 node Core2 Duo cluster connected to
the internet via 28.8kbs modem on AOL 6.0?  Sure, it's his cluster, but I
imagine you could think of a thing or two better to do to put it to good
use, and you'd probably rag on him if he were your buddy.

Either way, any mythtv system is just a Rube Goldberg implementation of TV,
and this is much more elaborate than average.  It's impressive in that way,
certainly.  Regardless, Bravo for putting it all together!

My real question that I was trying to ask from the beginning was what does
it take to watch 6 videos well that I don't understand?  As in I sincerely
would like to know, not in a sarcastic way.  Though I suppose it's a little
late for the now.




On 10/23/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:11:33PM -0400, Josh White wrote:
> >    While that looks really impressive, why do you need all that to watch
> 6
> >    videos at once?
> [ ... ]
> >    Maybe some of you awe inspired people can fill me in on the
> difficulty
> >    here.
>
> No one said there *needed* to be difficulty, did they?
>
> I see no reason why it needs to be "necessary" for him to take that
> particular approach.  He did it that way because he wanted to.  The
> only person he has to justify it to is... his wife.  :-)
>
> My question, John, is why do you sound so... almost offended by it?
>
> Consumption too conspicuous for you?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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