[mythtv-users] Output to h.264

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Aug 5 19:43:22 UTC 2010


  On 8/5/2010 15:17, mike at grounded.net wrote:
>>   In general, no.  You would install all your tuners into a single
>>   backend system, unless you have more tuners than a single backend can
>>   handle (which would be a lot of tuners).
> Really, what will determine that is which hardware I can use.
> For example, I have a lot of older blade servers I still use for dedicated functions.
> Each blade is an 850Mhz/256MB server which has one PCI slot available.
> Now, if these were powerful enough to be backend servers, I'd love to use them because I've got a lot of them sitting idle in chassis that are already powered up.

Why would you even consider using all that old hardware?  Even a large 
chassis with 16 blades could be easily overpowered by a $600 single 
processor, 6-core desktop.  Can you even plug that blade chassis into a 
normal 15A socket?


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