> Travis Tabbal wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Steven Adeff > wrote: > > > > will you really be taxing the network connection if you run a gigabit > network? > > > How many machines are we talking about here? If there are a lot, I > guess you could. An HD ATSC stream is about 20Mbit/Sec. Of course, you > would need a big Myth setup to overload a gigabit LAN. > > Just got the update message. Hmmm.... I would skip LVM and use Myth's > storage groups for the storage. Unless you want RAID5, then you may as > well use LVM too. Let's say 8 backends tuning 1 HD signal each and 5 > frontends streaming HD. So you have 13*20Mbit/Sec = 260Mbit/Sec. A > gigabit LAN should be able to keep up. Even 2 bonded 100Mbit cards > wouldn't be able to. > > What tuners are you running? If you use HDHomeruns or other digital > tuners, you could lose all those backends and just have the master > backend do all the work. The CPUs would help for commflagging and > such, but otherwise, I would save the power and keep most of the work > on the server. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users The situation is that I can get the PC's for nothing, all I do is use some for spares to repair others and get functioning machines. Then I add a decent HDD, 1G Ethernet card, DVB Tuner card ( Leadtek Winfast DTV2000H) and install Mythbuntu. So the number of PC's is not a cost issue. I have built a rack to take up to 10 pc's ( 1 master, 1 server and 8 slaves ) then 1 pc with each TV location ( another 5 ). I am an electrician so power, data, matv wiring costs nothing either. By using multiple pc's with Wake on LAN, I am keeping each pc lightly loaded so as to avoid heat issues.