I'm planning a server that will serve multiple set-top boxes (probably no more then two or three). Most likley, not all would be active at the same time, but it's possible. Each will most likely be viewing a different program. I'm assuming that Gig-e will work better for this then 100Mbit, but I'm not really sure.
My Motherboard (Asus A7V8X) has built-in gig-e. Are you saying that this will hurt my systems performance, even if I'm not filling up the pipe? -Mike On Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:41 am, James Pulley wrote: > Unless you have a "really nice" hardware-accelerated Gig-E card I > would go with a 100Mbit NIC instead. Usually to fill a given pipe > size requires 2x (x86) processor speed to fill a given pipe at standard > ethernet frame sizes (no Jumbo Frames). So, to fill a gigabit ethernet > pipe requires at least a 2Gigahertz processor. Performance Testing > is my profession. It is all too common that people will slap in > a Gig-E card and then starve their app for CPU cycles on the same > box. > > There are many codecs designed for mulicast that work very well in > T-1 and above pipe sizes. Any particular reason you need the gig- > E pipe (other than copying files faster?) > > James Pulley, iTest Solutions > > At Monday, 26 May 2003, you wrote: > >On Sunday 25 May 2003 06:51 am, Stian Davidsen wrote: > >> <snip> > >> > >> > The most important consideration > >> > is the PCI bus is only 33mbps, so you may have issues running > > say 2 tv > > >> > cards and something else like a firewire or mpeg encoder card > > at the same > > >> > time.. > >> > >> The PCI bus is 132 MB/s = 1gbps. > >> So unless you use both a gigabit nic and a firewire card on the same > >> bus, you're probably in the clear. > > > >How about a Gigabit nic and two tv cards? This is intended as a > > server, so > > >there won't be much in the way of video out, sound out, etc. > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > >If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > >relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > >Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > >_______________________________________________ > >Freevo-users mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > =================================================================== > EASY and FREE access to your email anywhere: http://Mailreader.com/ > =================================================================== > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
