On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:27:58 -0800, Kenneth Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been researching MythTV setups and have come up with the following > hardware configuration. >
<snip> > 2 x Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 Hi, I'm new to mythtv, so take this comment with a grain of salt... :) If your backend is a dedicated backend (ie. no frontend), then I think you're wasting money on the pvr-350's. The primary advantage that the pvr-350 has over the pvr-250 is that the 350 supported hardware decoding and the pvr-250 does not. > (Since theoretically, I could be streaming video to two front-ends, does it > help to have two -350's?) The pvr-x50 cards don't stream the data. They encode (record) the video and output mpeg2 format. If I were setting up a dedicated backend, I'd create a large data store for the recordings and share that data store using NFS or samba, depending on which you prefer. The frontend's would then mount the NFS export or samba share and access the recorded files over the network. Also, you may want to look into ivtv support of the pvr-150. It's a less expensive version of the pvr-250 and I seem to recall people starting to report success with the pvr-150 using ivtv, but the pvr-250 is certainly more stable at this point in time. Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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