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* [gentoo-user]  MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?
@ 2009-05-19 17:04 Grant Edwards
  2009-05-19 17:21 ` Michael Sullivan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Edwards @ 2009-05-19 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?

All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies
that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server.  It seems like a
waste to have both a backend server and my normal "desktop"
machine running all the time -- both 99% idle.

My tuner is a network-attached HDHR, so the backend isn't doing
any real-time encoding.  All it needs to to is shovel bytes
between the network interface and the disk.  I do plan on
having a dedicated drive for MythTV recordings.

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! Kids, don't gross me
                                  at               off ... "Adventures with
                               visi.com            MENTAL HYGIENE" can be
                                                   carried too FAR!




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* Re: [gentoo-user]  MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?
  2009-05-19 17:04 [gentoo-user] MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine? Grant Edwards
@ 2009-05-19 17:21 ` Michael Sullivan
  2009-05-19 18:04   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Sullivan @ 2009-05-19 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
> on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
> software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?
> 
> All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies
> that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server.  It seems like a
> waste to have both a backend server and my normal "desktop"
> machine running all the time -- both 99% idle.
> 
> My tuner is a network-attached HDHR, so the backend isn't doing
> any real-time encoding.  All it needs to to is shovel bytes
> between the network interface and the disk.  I do plan on
> having a dedicated drive for MythTV recordings.
> 

My MythTV setup has its own external 1TB drive for recordings, but it
runs on my desktop machine.  My tuner is a Hauppage WinTV PVR-250.
Since I got the external drive for myth I can run other programs on the
machine at the same time that Myth is recording, and it doesn't lose
information in the recordings anymore.   Recordings used to be skippy
before I got the external drive, but now it works great.  What did you
want to know?




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* [gentoo-user]  Re: MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?
  2009-05-19 17:21 ` Michael Sullivan
@ 2009-05-19 18:04   ` Grant Edwards
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Edwards @ 2009-05-19 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 2009-05-19, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
>> on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
>> software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?

...

> My MythTV setup has its own external 1TB drive for recordings,
> but it runs on my desktop machine.  My tuner is a Hauppage
> WinTV PVR-250. Since I got the external drive for myth I can
> run other programs on the machine at the same time that Myth
> is recording, and it doesn't lose information in the
> recordings anymore.  Recordings used to be skippy before I got
> the external drive, but now it works great.  What did you want
> to know?

I just wanted to know if anybody was running a MythTV backend
the way you are, and if they had any problems.

Based on your experiences, it sounds like a non-dedicated
machine with a dedicated drive works well enough.  HD data
rates are going to be higher than the PVR-250 (HD is
7-8GB/hour, and my '250 used to be about 1-1.5GB/hour), but
that should still be handled easily enough.

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! An INK-LING?  Sure --
                                  at               TAKE one!!  Did you BUY any
                               visi.com            COMMUNIST UNIFORMS??




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