[vdr] Re: Is a Network fast enough ?

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@thf.ath.cx>]

Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de> wrote:

> 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.

this i probably, (and IMHO of course, ) the best vdr setup. vdr should
get prepared for this kind of distributed application.