[mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record

[we4 at uakron.edu]

Thanks guys for your help. I do appreciate it!

Will

Quoting Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net>:

> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> 
> >On Friday 28 October 2005 8:09, we4 at uakron.edu wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>    I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm 
> >>    looking for so 
> >>maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend 
> >>and have 
> >>2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each 
> >>with a 
> >>wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only 
> >>occur on 
> >>the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the 
> >>frontends to 
> >>be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? 
> >>The 
> >>reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start 
> >>recording 
> >>then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i 
> >>only want 
> >>the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the 
> >>frontends for 
> >>tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks 
> >>in advance 
> >>for any help you guys could offer!
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It sounds like the frontends are not beefy enough to handle software 
> >encoding even for recording, so LiveTV using the cards in the frontend 
> >is probably out of the question as well.
> >
> As I'm thinking about it, another option would be to swap.  Put the 
> PVR-250s into the frontends where hardware encoding can happen and move 
> the BTTV cards into the backend which may have the juice to do dual 
> recordings (my athlon 2000 can do it).
> 
> Kevin
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