[mythtv-users] Initial experience with an ION backend

[Paul]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My conclusion is that if your recording/commflagging requirements are
> modest, an ION system could make a perfectly suitable combined BE/FE
> myth system.  It should easily commflag standard definition programs
> in real-time, and almost keep up with real-time for high definition
> programs.  (I am very pleasantly surprised by this, as I expected
> commflagging performance to be much worse.)  If you tend to have
> bursts of simultaneous recordings, like when the networks compete in
> lucrative timeslots, and you care about near real-time commflagging,
> you might want to consider a dual-core Atom board and hope the cooling
> fan is unnecessary (though if you already have a spinning disk for the
> recordings, maybe the fan isn't so bad, as far as noise is concerned).
>
> Jim

A somewhat related scenario i had considered was to use  an atom based
system for the backend and then a more powerful Intel or AMD dual core
system for the frontend (Non-myth requirements made it so an ion based
system wouldn't work). Commflagging could then be run on the frontend,
and it could be shutdown and started up as needed. Also since the
backend would be low power it wouldn't hurt to leave in on most the
time.

Paul