[mythtv-users] Setup advice

Joshua Lewis jmlewis at dslextreme.com
Wed Nov 2 16:38:31 EST 2005


Sorry for any silly questions. I am trying to map this out in my head and
i need some help please. Before I go and by the hardware

5 TVs in the house
5 Hauppauge MediaMVP at each TV
1 MythTV server in a closet/basement
5 WinTV-PVR-150MCE l.p. (or) 3-4 WinTV-PVR-500MCE in the server
Alot of drives in the server

Goal
Watch DVDs that were copied to the server, Live TV, Recorded TV, Slideshows
Play FM Radio, MP3s,
Basicly all of the modules
MythPhone what the heck is that.

Ease of use: A wife, three kids, and a mother in law. Need I say more.
Able to use remote with MediaMVP at each TV to navigate all functions. No
need for a keyboard mouse etc.

Am I cruzen for a bruzin? Or is this totaly ok. I was also hopeing for
someone to confirm that a user at the TV using the MediaTV remote can
click TV and watch the tv show that is running at that moment. Obviously
it is being saved to the harddrive and replayed back but to the user it
looks like live TV. How does MythTV handle multiple users watching
different channels at the same time?

I will only have CAT6 cable running from the server to the MediaMVPs. Is
that going to cuase problems for Audio or does the audio for the radio and
everything go through the CAT6 cable?

Thank you again for any advice on Hardware choices or setup.


Thank you,
Joshua Lewis


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