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On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend |
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> on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for |
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> software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)? |
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> All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies |
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> that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server. It seems like a |
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> waste to have both a backend server and my normal "desktop" |
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> machine running all the time -- both 99% idle. |
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> My tuner is a network-attached HDHR, so the backend isn't doing |
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> any real-time encoding. All it needs to to is shovel bytes |
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> between the network interface and the disk. I do plan on |
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> having a dedicated drive for MythTV recordings. |
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My MythTV setup has its own external 1TB drive for recordings, but it |
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runs on my desktop machine. My tuner is a Hauppage WinTV PVR-250. |
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Since I got the external drive for myth I can run other programs on the |
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machine at the same time that Myth is recording, and it doesn't lose |
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information in the recordings anymore. Recordings used to be skippy |
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before I got the external drive, but now it works great. What did you |
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want to know? |
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