<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div name="quote" style="margin:10px 5px 5px 10px; padding: 10px 0 10px 10px; border-left:2px solid #C3D9E5; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div name="quoted-content"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Tyler T <span><<a href="tylernt@gmail.com" target="_parent">tylernt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br/><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px rgb(204,204,204) solid;padding-left: 1.0ex;">
>>> The plan is for the RPis to only capture video and store on the NAS.<br/>
<br/>
> Something like a mac mini as a master backend(No transcoding)<br/>
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If you're going to leave the MBE running all the time anyway, just<br/>
hook all those tuners straight into it. The RPis would only be useful<br/>
inasmuch as they can record stuff efficiently while your MBE is<br/>
asleep.<br/>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br/>The RPi vB has a 100 meg interface and 256 RAM so at least the network speed should certainly be adequate.<br/>Perhaps an optimized backend/frontend could be devised just for this hardware.......<br/>
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</div><div><br/>If you are looking for a frontend optimized for small hardware, how about the mvpmc plugin rewrite?<br/><div><a href="../dereferrer?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgettler%2Fmvpmc%2Fblob%2Fplugin%2FREADME&selection=tfol11a40cf218375cfe" target="_blank">https://github.com/gettler/mvpmc/blob/plugin/README</a> <br/></div><div><br/></div><div>The
original target hardware has only 16mb memory for SD playback and it
works ok as a frontend (1st hand experience, but years ago)<br/></div><div><a href="../dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHauppauge_MediaMVP&selection=tfol11a40cf218375cfe" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge_MediaMVP</a><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>You "just" need to add video decoding and a fancy UI based on OpenGL ES.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Regards,<br/></div><div>Karl<br/></div><div><br/></div><br/></div><div><br/></div></div> <br><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td style="font-family:verdana; font-size:12px; line-height:17px;border-top:1px solid #000000">SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und <br>kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! <a href="http://f.web.de/?mc=021192"><b>http://f.web.de/?mc=021192</b></a></td></tr></table>
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