[mythtvnz] Backend Hardware - thoughts and recommendations

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:00:43 +1200, you wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>
>Need to rebuild my 'mythtv' system after a catastrophic hard drive 
>failure. The current system was analogue only using PVR-150 cards.
>
>I'm looking to move to a dedicated DVB-T back-end with separate 
>front-ends, however I've not been in the hardware purchasing market for 
>a while.
>
>I'd appreciate any reasonable suggestions on mobo cpu ram combinations 
>that others have working or know work well. I already have available a 
>case suitable for ATX or microATX type motherboards.

If you want to run mythcommflag on DVB-T recordings on your backend,
then the faster the box, the better.  It seems that mythcommflag only
runs on one CPU core at a time, so you can run as many mythcommflags
as you have cores, as long as your disk can keep up.

>My intention is to install a separate DTV antenna system for this 
>back-end, possibly to something like a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 or two.

There are only three DVB-T multiplexes, so two Nova TD-500 cards would
be over kill (4 tuners).

>I'd like to possibly also host maybe one or two diskless client 
>front-ends from this machine as well in future.
>
>Thanks
>
>Andrew Sands