[mythtv-users] HD Homerun questions

[Mark Knecht]

Well, I ordered one from NewEgg for delivery later this week. We'll
see how it goes. As a start I'll try using the Mac mini as a secondary
server and try limiting my recordings to 480p. That has a better
chance of streaming on my network and will double the number of
channels we can record so hopefully the family will be happy and this
won't have a big impact on what they do right now.

Thanks for all the inputs.

Cheers,
Mark

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>>
>> Bay Area, meaning SF?  I've heard the cableco around there is fairly
>> liberal with clearqam, of course Silicon Dust maintains a list of the
>> available ATSC and QAM channels on their site, searchable by zip code.
>
> Yes, South Bay, a bit outside of the San Jose area.
>
> That list is where I got the 30% hit rate I think I might make with
> the HDHR. We all record a lot of cable channels - FX, Comedy Central,
> SciFi, etc., that I am guess aren't likely to show up unencrypted, or
> at least that's my guess.
>
>> Now for retaining multiple copies of a recording, there has been talk of
>> doing that, as well as having the backend transcode on-the-fly, but
>> nothing has ever come out of it.  Any single recording is not going to
>> be more than 19mbps, and usually average closer to 16mbps, so while the
>> HDHR can possibly push 76mbps, having a wired backend could be
>> sufficient to alleviate your wireless bandwidth issues.
>
> I wasn't so much wondering about the network bandwidth side, although
> that's an issue also. It was more that I have a couple of analog SD
> TV's with Pundit-R frontends which are required to use an older ATI
> proprietary driver so that I can get output on S-Video. I'm not sure
> how they might react if I throw HD material at them and then ask them
> to do anything with it on the fly. They are not very powerful machines
> and the fan already runs pretty loud after 10 minutes of doing SD
> material. Seems like HD could be too much.
>
> Again, I likely just get the HDHR and see how it works out.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>