[vdr] Re: Is a Network fast enough ?

[Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mit, 2002-08-07 um 09.42 schrieb Steffen Koch:
> Carsten Koch wrote:
> > 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?
> Can you detail your setup a little bit?
> 
> 

There's a simple way. Take a mainboard with 6 PCI-slots, put 5 (don't
forget to edit the DVB-driver with more than 4 cards)  DVB-S  (should
all be low-budgets to get the complete TS and parallel recording) and
one Gigabit Ethernet-card into it (10/100/1000BaseT(X)-cards cost about
80 EUR). Put 4 or 8 (depending on your Mainboard) 160 GB Maxtor disks
into.

Then put one full-featured DVB-S, another Gigabit-Ethernet and a DVD-ROM
(maybe a DVD+R(W) - don't take that PIONEER DVD-R(W)-shit ...) into your
client. Depending on your needs you can either boot by BOOTP/NFSROOT, or
a small, quiet harddisk or an IDE-flash-disk getting the root-directory
by NFS.

Then mount the video-directories and the configuration-directory to your
client. If you do any changes on your clients OSD, they will be written
onto the NFS-mounted data of your server's VDR. This can be done simply
with timers, but settings need a restart of your server's VDR.


@ KLAUS SCHMIDINGER:

Will it be possible to reload configuration-files without restarting
VDR?


You can also do cutting and watching as usual on your client.

This works with one client, it also works with several clients, but you
can get inconsistencies of your data if two clients write at the same
time to your VDR-server. So you should use VDRADMIN then.

If the upper mentioned configuration is to expensive, you can lower the
number of DVB-S and harddisks, of course ;o)

Rene