[mythtv-users] large mythtv deployment

[Mike Perkins]

Michael Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing a fairly large deployment of mythtv at work and I am looking for
> any pointers that may help us out. So far we have the following hardware for
> a mythtv cluster and we are now debating over the hd5500 or the WinTV-HD
> capture cards. We want 8x backends and 8x frontends.
> 
> Hardware:
> 1 x Quad core 2.8Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk
> 2 x Quad core 2.4Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk
> 2 x Dual core 2.4Ghz / 4G ram / 500G disk
> 8 x 3Ghz / 4Gram / 120G
> 1 x appletv frontend
> 1 x ps3 frontend
> 
> Plan:
> Keep all the frontends and backends in a single room and run 3 ethernet
> cables from frontend to the display via HDMI over ethernet thus leaving 1
> ethernet cable free for IR and maybe something else.
> 
> In Question:
> * What is the length limit on an IR reciever cable?
> 
Why on earth do you want to have eight backends? Are you setting these up to be 
completely independant of each other? It's not necessary, and you will be 
duplicating files and effort.

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Mike Perkins