[mythtv-users] Output to h.264

Tyler T tylernt at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 18:27:53 UTC 2010


You're going to need a paradigm shift. LAN isn't like coax where all
the channels are transmitted all the time. (I suppose you could stream
all the channels all the time on a gigabit LAN, but that would be
wasteful and unreliable and not a job for MythTV.) LAN is an on-demand
service; your tuners and backends are idle until a frontend (either
Myth or a UPnP client) requests a video feed. Then the backend wakes
up, turns on the tuner, and starts sending data to the frontend. When
the frontend is done, the connection is torn down and things go idle
and your LAN goes quiet.

Since you mention 15 feeds, you will probably want to use a much
smaller number of backends, each with many tuners. This will not only
save power but reduce overall system complexity (and time spend
creating/maintaining it).


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