[vdr] Re: Is a Network fast enough ?

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>]

> are you sure you want the noise of 7 hard disks in your living room?

> Why don't you build silent vdr machines with just one disk or no
> disk at all and just one DVB-S card for the living room (and maybe
> any other room where you want to watch TV) and do all the recording
> at a central vdr with many disks and 4 DVB cards?
Thatīs no Problem at all - i still use this 7 Disks in Livingroom since over 1 Year now...

> Regarding AMD CPUs: Yes, my VDR currently is a Duron 700.
> I have it attached to a beamer with RGB inputs, so I can
> run mplayer (for divx replay) directly off the graphics
> card. Without divx via DVB-S a Duron 700 is more than
> enough for VDR.

Ah - thanx for this info.