Hey Everyone - I need a little help to steer clear of any landmines out there. I have read a lot of different stuff on hardware and software, drivers, video cards etc, and I have come up with a list of what I THINK will work, but was hoping someone could eye it over for any flaws before my building process starts.
What I want to do is have a dedicated backend system for grabbing all of my video stuff which will reside in my office and several "frontend" systems in the house for just watching the stuff off the backend. I have a cable tv connection, an external HD antenna, and around 250 DVDs I want to put on the system for playing without having to load the dvds. I also have around 10,000 MP3s from my cd collections I want to load on the system. Here is the plan for the backend: HD-3000 HDTV PCI Card Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 (someone said you cannot watch DVD's with this card, has that been corrected, or should I stick with the 250..?) LSI Login MegaRAID SATA Controller 4 x Maxtor 300GB Hard Drives (RAID 5) Questions for the backend system: Do I need a real good video card for this system since it will not be hooked to a TV at all...? Do I need a decent sound card to capture the sound, or will the ivtv driver work for both the 250/350 and the HD-3000 How powerful of a CPU do I need to handle the HDTV stuff. I realize that the 350 has a builtin hardware mpeg encoder/decoder, but I am not sure about the HDTV side of the house. Do I need a separate tuner card in the backend system for each frontend system in order for them to watch separate 'live' channels..? SO if I had 3 frontend systems that wanted to watch different 'live' channels, I would need 3 x PVR-350's..? On the frontend, I assume that I need 1) Hard Drive 2) Good Video Card 3) Good Sound Card The hard drive does not have to be that big because its only going to run the front end application correct..? No need for mysql, and all the extra stuff that had to been installed in the backend, or am I incorrect here..? On the video card, I was told to use a card that supported XV. I was hoping to use a nice ATI or NVidia that would support component out as opposed to composite or S-Video. But how powerful of a card do I need Also, how powerful a machine and video card do I need on the front end to watch the HDTV stuff, or is all of that processing done on the backend system and just streamed to the frontend..? I was thinking of running the ASUS Pundit as my front end systems (with a different video card (if necessary)). Thanks for any input anyone may have !!! ****************************************** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Internet Services ---------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adnc.com ---------------------------------------------------- 858.576.4272 - Phone 858.427.2401 - Fax INOC-DBA - 6130 ---------------------------------------------------- I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's watching."
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