* [gentoo-user] MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?
@ 2009-05-19 17:04 Grant Edwards
2009-05-19 17:21 ` Michael Sullivan
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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