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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I have an older ppc-based Mac Mini that I haven't updated in a |
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>> while but would like to try using as a MythTV backend server for |
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>> digital recording only. |
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> Actually, do you think it has enough CPU power to do video recording and |
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> transcoding? I have my doubts. I have the same Mac Mini. It would however, |
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> make a great remote client to stream video from a MythTV backend server. |
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ACtually, with an HDHR it doesn't have to do much of anything except |
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commercial flagging. I'm using an external USB drive for storage and |
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the HD Homerun for getting the data off the cable. It's VERY early |
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days so I cannot say much at this time but it seems OK at least with |
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test recordings. Give me a few weeks to check it out more completely |
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and I'll post back. |
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It seems a perfect solution for this sort of application as the Mac is |
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really just acting as a router to get network traffic from the HDHR to |
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the disk, and then from the disk to the network for remote front ends. |
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My fingers are crossed... ;-) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |