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[pvrijswijck]

Hi all,

I'm kinda new to building a Home Theater, so I have a question:

- How is the CPU load when using DVB-S2 PCI cards recording in HD? Problem is I want to use 4 tuners on DVB-S2, but most recent mobo's only support 2 or 3 PCI slots. I still have an Athlon XP (one of the last) with 2Gb memory and lots of PCI space. Will this do? That machine will be back-end, so no viewing in HD will be done there.

- Is it interesting to put the SQL server on a different server (running W2K3)?

Thanks in advance.

Gizmo.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

How is the CPU load when using DVB-S2 PCI cards recording in HD?

Should be no difference to SD, the only thing is a larger file, approx 2 times larger from what i have read, the only limit is the bus speed between the pci cards and the hdd\s.
The main difference is playback, what codec you are using, if it and your graphics chip\card support hardware decoding (dxva\dxva2), if not done by the graphics the workload will then be passed to the cpu, as you just want this as a server, should not be a problem.

- Is it interesting to put the SQL server on a different server (running W2K3)?

Why complicate things, whichever machine is going to do the streaming media content, should be the one with sql server installed, i gather you are talking about adding a slave server to your system as well, if not please elaborate

Regards

 

[pvrijswijck]

Installing an SQL server would just be to separate the load between different machines, but since the load won't be that high, it is indeed maybe overkill.

Thanks for your advice.