star882

I currently have an ATi HDTV Wonder in my 64 bit PC. I use MythTV as the player program. Quality is excellent, but system resource usage is a little more than I like, even with XvMC.

Can I move the HDTV card into a 32 bit Prescott machine and "split" the MythTV setup so the backend (and MySQL server) goes on the Prescott and the frontend on the Athlon 64? I think MythTV supports it, but can I still view live TV over the LAN? If so, will regular 10/100 work or will I need something better? I can parallel multiple NICs to the Cisco switch for very cheap. It would require an expensive switch upgrade to go to gigabit so I would like to avoid that if possible.

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.

kobski

Yes, you can split the backend and frontend, so that they are on seperate machines.
And yes, you can watch live TV over the LAN. And change the channel, and timeshift, and...
You should also be fine with 100MBit. I'm not sure what bitrate you are using for recording, but it should be nowhere near the bandwidth available. You can check it in the recording settings.

Jacob
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star882

So in that configuration, if I "pause" (buffer) live TV, would it use the disk in the server or the client for this?

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.

kobski

Originally Posted by star882

So in that configuration, if I "pause" (buffer) live TV, would it use the disk in the server or the client for this?

It would use the disk in the server.

Jacob
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ericcumbee

Star,
you should check this out, i think it would be something you maybe interested in.
Plutohome.com

ive got tons of x10 cameras, and the place i am interning at is going to be getting rid of some p4 1.8 compaq evos and i may get a few of them and try this out.