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Since you have PVR 350's, you don't really need the XvMC video cards
either, as you can just use the built in MPEG2 decoding onboard. I
have used a P3 500 with a PVR 350 and had no apparent problems with
speed. (I don't think it matters, but my videos are stored across the
network via an NFS share).<br>
<br>
Have fun!<br>
<br>
Todd<br>
<br>
Brett Kosinski wrote:
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What
have others done to develop a network at home? I<br>
am running Cat5 through the house so networking
<br>
should not be an issue.</blockquote>
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Sounds like the hardest part is done, then. As long as you can do
100Mb/s (and your network is switched), you should be fine, here.<br>
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terms of hardware, should I try to get an xBox or<br>
get XvMc capable video cards? My current inventory of<br>
computers:<br>
<br>
2 PIII 800s<br>
1 AMD 1.1 GHz Athlon<br>
1 AMD 800MHz<br>
2 PVR 350s<br>
2 GeForce 5200s</blockquote>
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Is this gear all available for Myth? If so, I'd just get XvMC-capable
video cards and throw them in the PIIIs, as they're more than
sufficient for doing MPEG2 decoding (w/ hardware acceleration). OTOH,
if you want to play MPEG4s or HD content, you might want something with
more heft (in which case, xboxes probably aren't sufficient, anyway).
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terms of hard drives, should I use SATA instead of<br>
PATA? I plan to use Raid 10. Are there any issues
<br>
when trying to record and play multiple streams? Can<br>
a recording be accessed by two or more TVs? Thanks<br>
for any advice you can give.</blockquote>
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1) PATA vs SATA is probably a non-issue. Go with whatever you can find
cheaper. :) I say this as Myth only does around 2Gb/hr for an SD
stream, so you're looking at 4 GB/hr with both tuners running
simultaneously. Any hard drive you find will be able to handle this
with ease. If you plan to go HD in the future, you might want to go
with SATA, though, just to be on the safe side.
<br>
<br>
2) As per 1), recording/playing multiple streams simultaneously should
be a non-issue.<br>
<br>
3) Yup, a recording can be accessed by any frontends that want it, and
there's no limit to the number of simultaneous watchers (well, other
than bandwidth at the backend network interface).
<br>
<br>
Brett.<br>
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