[mythtv-users] Zotac ION + HD-PVR 1212: FE/Master BE or FE/Slave BE?

[jedi]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:23:46AM -0400, Eric N wrote:
> I'm planning my first MythTV setup with an HD-PVR 1212 already
> purchased.  I have searched the mailing list archives and some users
> have reported success using the zotac ion with intel atom processor as
> a combined FE/BE if you do not plan on comm flagging multiple shows at
> one time and have one capture device.  I will have a fileserver and
> general use pc in my office that could perform some of the tasks of

    Setup mythjobqueue the "office pc" and don't even let the FE/BE 
box do flagging jobs. Recording from the HD-PVR certainly won't tax
the system any. The only concern might be disk space but you can host
that in your office PC too.

    I have a FE/BE machine that runs a HD-PVR setup like this. It is
a slave backend one of my desktop machines in the home office is the
master backend.     

> the BE.  Which would be easiest to set up while offloading the most
> cpu intensive process to the office pc: zotac as FE/master BE and pc
> as slave BE or zotac as FE/slave BE and pc as master BE?  I have read
> that the master BE expects at least one capture device in past
> versions of Myth, but is that still true for 0.22?
> 
> I am looking at a zotac ion A-U with dual core atom processor and I
> would throw in 4 GB ram.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eric N
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