[mythtv-users] Will Myth do this?

Kevin Robbins robbinsck at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 11:00:29 UTC 2007


Iam looking to build the ultimate home media server/pvr. A few things have been a little vague and I wanted to ask here. 

The backend will be in the basement, it will have 4 twinhan DBV-S pci cards allowing for 4 recordings at once. HD storage will be done with 4 terabyte sata HD's.  2 TB raids. 

There will be 3 remote frontends locally in my house.  Which will all be done with Gigabit switches, actual built in GB lan cards and cat-6 cable. 

That part I have pretty much confirmed will work. (Any comments??)

What I would like to know is.....

1. Will mythweb allow remote viewing over the internet in a browser somewhat like a slingbox?

2.  Will I be able to schedule recordings, delete recordings from a mythtv frontend? This is my likely set up based on research. 
My frontend of choice will be a P3 900 MHZ with 100% passive cooling and a 1 gig "flash" hard drive for actual local booting but no local media storage (all that's done on backend) and a DVD-RW drive.  Software will be mythbuntu. 

3. Can I control the frontends Solely with a remote control? Or do I need a keyboard?

4. Dvd ripping. Let's say I go one of my mythtv frontends. And load a dvd. Can I rip it to the server from there? Can I burn a copy of it once its ripped on another frontend machine. 

5. Will I be able to burn a music playlist to a cd from a frontend machine?

6. Will it be reliable??

There will be many more questions to follow but this is a start. 

Thanks in advance

CK



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