I have a big one peeps and I hope you can help!
I currently have 2 projects I'm planning for which both involve some serious TV-Server and Client workage.
Ill give you the most urgent situation:
1 x Server (P-D, 2Gb RAM, 2.5Tb HDD, 3 x Dual DVB-T's so up to 6 simultaneous TV streams at once)
7 x Clients (C2D, 2Gb RAM, 80Gb HDD, Fanless 8500GTs)
1 x 8 port Gigabit switch with CAT5E running through the entire home.
The questions I have:
1. Will a gigabit network handle 7 simultaneous streams of multiple sorts? ie; 4 x HDTV and 3 x DVD all at once.
2. Will the server handle the 7 streams simultaneously CPU, RAM and HDD wise. Even if I use seperate HDDs for each clients TV recording etc.
3. Would it be a better option to run 2 servers instead and split the tuners down the middle and share the load between them.
4. If I run a dedicated analogue TV tuner alongside the digitals on the server for a single foxtel input, will this one additional channel live happily alongside the other DVB channels on the clients? ie: Be able to change channels seemlessly from one HDTV channel to the anologue channel for foxtel...
I know this is alot to ask, but if I can pull this off, I hope to be able to pump some useful knowledge back into the community and if I make some $$ on the side, I will certainly make sure the MP tips jar receives a well deserved top up.
in advance!!
I currently have 2 projects I'm planning for which both involve some serious TV-Server and Client workage.
Ill give you the most urgent situation:
1 x Server (P-D, 2Gb RAM, 2.5Tb HDD, 3 x Dual DVB-T's so up to 6 simultaneous TV streams at once)
7 x Clients (C2D, 2Gb RAM, 80Gb HDD, Fanless 8500GTs)
1 x 8 port Gigabit switch with CAT5E running through the entire home.
The questions I have:
1. Will a gigabit network handle 7 simultaneous streams of multiple sorts? ie; 4 x HDTV and 3 x DVD all at once.
2. Will the server handle the 7 streams simultaneously CPU, RAM and HDD wise. Even if I use seperate HDDs for each clients TV recording etc.
3. Would it be a better option to run 2 servers instead and split the tuners down the middle and share the load between them.
4. If I run a dedicated analogue TV tuner alongside the digitals on the server for a single foxtel input, will this one additional channel live happily alongside the other DVB channels on the clients? ie: Be able to change channels seemlessly from one HDTV channel to the anologue channel for foxtel...
I know this is alot to ask, but if I can pull this off, I hope to be able to pump some useful knowledge back into the community and if I make some $$ on the side, I will certainly make sure the MP tips jar receives a well deserved top up.
in advance!!