<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Tyler T <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tylernt@gmail.com">tylernt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>>> The plan is for the RPis to only capture video and store on the NAS.<br>
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> 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>