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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marland V. Pittman</b> <<a href="mailto:marland@mvpittman.com">marland@mvpittman.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">- Do I really need 2 GB of RAM in a front-end? Will 1 GB be fine?</blockquote>
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<div>I use 1gig on a combo FE/BE, np.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">- Is 2.8 GHz fast enough to simultaneously record 3 or more HD streams?</blockquote>
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<div>You don't even need that much.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">- Does my backend need lots of RAM (more than 1 GB) to record from<br>multiple tuners?</blockquote>
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<div>Not that I've seen... again, 1 gig is doing me fine.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">- Does separating the frontend from the backend only help playback?</blockquote>
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<div>Well, commflagging is a big CPU user for me as well as SD.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Would I benefit from having the Tuner in a frontend machine as opposed<br>to the backend? It'd be nice to just have one antenna split into 5 cards
<br>at one location, rather than wiring up the whole house.</blockquote>
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<div>This is what I did and it's way easier.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">- I assume HD needs lots of bandwidth. Do I need to upgrade from a 100<br>megabit switch to gigabit to pull this off? I'm hoping if I have 5
<br>tuners in the machine, but I'm only pulling two tuners worth of live<br>content, or two prerecorded shows at once, I can manage.</blockquote>
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<div>Ya, 100 meg should be fine. My network is a mix of gigE and 100m and I rarely have issues.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">- Is MythDora being based on F6 really a problem? I mean, these are<br>going to be appliances... I'm not planning on mucking about with them,
<br>but I would like to be able to upgrade them as necessary.</blockquote>
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<div>MythDora is what I ended up with, and it's nice because it was the most plug and play solution I tested. There are others out there (mythbuntu) that you might try out for a couple days to see if you like them.</div>
<br>Sean<br> </div>