[mythtv-users] What would be the best route to go?

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 10:15 US/Pacific, Mark Dobossy wrote:

> Jarod-
>
> Thanks for the advice.  I am tending to agree with you (as is my 
> wallet) that route 1 is the way to go.  2 more questions before I make 
> the final plunge-

Wallet is definitely a factor...

> As long as I am putting it together, will an Athlon XP 2400 last me a 
> while with  MythTV?  If I don't plan on going HDTV any time soon, 
> should it be good for the foreseeable future? Or should fork over a 
> few more bucks, and get something like  a 2600?  Or heck- can I go 
> with an even slower processor and be safe?

I'm running a 1700 with no problems, though I'm told it currently isn't 
quite enough oomph for software HDTV decoding. I frequently watch one 
show while recording another with my PVR-250. Hell, I have an Athlon 
800 remote frontend that plays the PVR-250 files back just fine also 
(but isn't doing any capture).

> Second question- Can I save the video streams to a remote media 
> machine?  So if in the future, I set up a big array of drives (say a 
> TB in a separate room) would I get sufficient performance over a 
> 10/100 line to save the stream on that other machine?

Yes, this is very doable. Set up an NFS share on the server machine, 
mount the share on the viewer and set MythTV to store everything there. 
That, or move your tuner to the server machine, and simply use the 
viewer as a remote frontend. 10Mbps probably wouldn't be great, but 
100Mbps is definitely fine. Granted, things will be a touch more 
sluggish going over the network versus local access. You might opt to 
save all recordings on the remote machine, but keep the live TV buffer 
on the local drive.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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