[mythtv-users] Separate frontend vs backend question..

[Matthew Geller]

James,

Thanks for the info.

Actually when I was talking about moving the haup 350 into the frontend it
would make the frontend into a frontend/backend with only the storage being
behind the scenes.  Then again that doesn't benefit me much as you
mentioned.

I was mainly concerned with delay for LiveTV coming across the wire.  Now I
just need to find a very small, quite, cheap, nice sound and video only
frontend box that will actually run fedora or something..

-Matt

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of James L. Paul
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 5:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Separate frontend vs backend question..

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On Friday 27 February 2004 12:25 pm, Matthew Geller wrote:
> Newbie, but I searched the archive for 3 days so I figure this is a 
> valid question.  BTW mythTV and this mailing list are excellent.
>
> Backend with dual haup 250's and SATA drives to record/store.
> Frontend with only a video card and little or no drive space.
>
> Is it practical to watch live TV on the frontend played over the wire 
> and still pause/rr/ff live TV?  How bad is the lag?

Yes. This is a primary function of separating the frontend and backend. A
100Mbit network is quite acceptable in performance.

> If that is not practical would moving to this type of config work.
> Backend big NFS with SATA
> Frontend with haup 350 using NFS and little/no front-end drive space.

It's kind of a waste to put a PVR350 in a frontend-only machine. I'd choose
some other TV-out solution if you won't be using the capture abilities of
the 350 card. The 350 makes much more sense in a combined backend/frontend
machine.

> Can the NFS run on @#)$ (Windows)...  I could then use my existing 
> file server.

Why bother using NFS if you don't have a convenient NFS fileserver? If you
have a windows fileserver that presumably uses SMB, just use that. A Linux
backend machine can connect to windows fileshares perfectly fine using
Samba.

> -Matt
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