[vdr] Re: Is a Network fast enough ?

[Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mit, 2002-08-07 um 16.04 schrieb Clemens Kirchgatterer:
> 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. 
> 

Much more better would be to have a USB-2.0-low-budget-box providing the 
complete TS. That wouldn't cost so much PCI-slots needed for other purposes. 
But maybe, there will be one some time ...

Rene