Thanks guys for your help. I do appreciate it! Will
Quoting Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > >On Friday 28 October 2005 8:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>Hi All, > >> > >> I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm > >> looking for so > >>maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend > >>and have > >>2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each > >>with a > >>wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only > >>occur on > >>the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the > >>frontends to > >>be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? > >>The > >>reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start > >>recording > >>then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i > >>only want > >>the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the > >>frontends for > >>tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks > >>in advance > >>for any help you guys could offer! > >> > >> > > > >It sounds like the frontends are not beefy enough to handle software > >encoding even for recording, so LiveTV using the cards in the frontend > >is probably out of the question as well. > > > As I'm thinking about it, another option would be to swap. Put the > PVR-250s into the frontends where hardware encoding can happen and move > the BTTV cards into the backend which may have the juice to do dual > recordings (my athlon 2000 can do it). > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
