[mythtv-users] large mythtv deployment

[Michael Johnson]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/15/2008 11:40 AM, Michael Johnson wrote:
>
> >  On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > >> I am doing a fairly large deployment of mythtv at work and I am
> > >> looking for any pointers that may help us out. So far we have the
> > >> following hardware for a mythtv cluster and we are now debating
> > >> over the hd5500 or the WinTV-HD capture cards. We want 8x
> > >> backends and 8x frontends.
> > >
> > > Why on earth do you want to have eight backends? Are you setting
> > > these up to be completely independant of each other? It's not
> > > necessary, and you will be duplicating files and effort.
> >
> >  We have 8 satellite feeds. So we don't necessarily want 8 backends,
> >  however we want 8 capture cards hooked up (somehow) to the hardware
> >  we have below.
>
> Are you sure that will work?  Are you absolutely certain that you're
> getting ATSC feeds from your satellite?  And, if so, are you absolutely
> certain that these feeds are unencrypted?  If the answer to either
> question is no, the HD-5500 (and likely--though I don't know the
> hardware--the WinTV-HD) won't work at all.  Feel free to ignore me since
> it sounds like you have some special setup, so you probably know what
> you're doing, but I just thought I would mention it just in case.
>

when I say satellite feed I mean we have 8 satellite receivers in a single
room and we plan on controlling them with an ir blaster.


>
> Oh, and BTW, the frontend is the part of Myth where the extra power is
> useful.  My system has 2 backends (AMD Athlon XP 2400+ and AMD Athlon XP
> 2000+ with 1GB and 512MB RAM, respectively) each with 2 pcHDTV HD-3000's
> and one frontend (AMD Athlon X2 6000+ with 2GB RAM).  The only reason I
> have 2 backends is because I couldn't find a system (power supply and
> mobo) that could drive 3 or 4 HD-3000's without power issues (and, once
> I set it a 2nd backend, I liked the fact that it gave me a lot more room
> for hard drives/storage).


We hope to have 6 feeds at 1080i and 2 at 720p. Do we even have enough
computing power to do this?


>
>
> Mike
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