[mythtv-users] The Ultimate Myth Setup

[Robbie Hughes]

Neil Davidson wrote:

>>>Each TV will need its own "frontend" system which will
>>>handle decoding and playback.  Because the work is
>>>distributed, having a dual-Xeon backend is probably
>>>overkill.
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>>Thats interesting.
>>there is no way i can have the server do all the encoding and stream the
>>mpg files over the network to make the clients as light as possible?
>>(with a second or two delay obv...)
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>The server is doing all the encoding, but if you use cards like the PVR-250
>then they will be encoding to MPEG-2 in hardware so all the backend is doing
>is running the database and either storing or serving video from disk. With
>only two cards a dual Xeon would be overkill.
>
>Where it gets hard work for the server is during transcoding to another
>format (say MPEG-4 for reduced archive space etc) or for commercial
>flagging. The front ends can be a little as an Epia M6000 i believe, but an
>M10000 would probably be better. Have you looked at MiniMyth
>(http://www.linpvr.org) for front end ideas? even if you don't use MiniMyth
>there is some very good info on the forum there. Diskless, network booting,
>low power, zero noise frontends are what you should go for in my opinion :)
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thanks for the ref. - that looks sweet.

ok so the next step has to be finding the perfect remote - obviously i 
can have lots of these hush network booting boxes throughout the house 
and use them for hifi and tv. each user can have their own remote that 
will work everywhere...does anyone have any good advice on a good 
receiver and remote combo? or just a plain good remote?