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<blockquote data-quote="ASiDiE" data-source="post: 63228" data-attributes="member: 11017">Infinityloop, Let me explain a little bit more what I mean.&nbsp; I work for a company that has a product called ImageSilo.&nbsp; We are an online document management system and we host people's documents.&nbsp; We have 10 import servers.&nbsp; We have 10 servers that are constantly looking for new data.&nbsp;&nbsp; Each server runs a service.&nbsp;&nbsp; So lets say you have your main PC, a media server (stores your movies and houses your capture cards) and the actually stand alone HTPC that you run Media portal on.&nbsp; This means for the most part, each computer is actually doing very little.&nbsp; &nbsp; If you could install the service on each computer to allow it use it's processing power for different jobs.&nbsp; Instead of 1 CPU with 100% use, you now have 3 CPUS's at 300%.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lets say you have recorded 4 new shows and now you want to compress them all at night.&nbsp; Instead of 1 CPU running all 4 jobs, it would see that you have a total of 3 CPUS that can do the job.&nbsp; Things would get done a lot quicker.&nbsp; The downside to this, is you would be transferring the data over the network.&nbsp; This is usually not a problem unless you are using a slower wireless.&nbsp; &nbsp; I am just totally throwing this out there. In MediaPortals case, it might not even work that well.&nbsp;&nbsp; There might not be any advantage to this if the network is slowing everything down, but I think it's a cool idea.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ASiDiE, post: 63228, member: 11017"] Infinityloop, Let me explain a little bit more what I mean. I work for a company that has a product called ImageSilo. We are an online document management system and we host people's documents. We have 10 import servers. We have 10 servers that are constantly looking for new data. Each server runs a service. So lets say you have your main PC, a media server (stores your movies and houses your capture cards) and the actually stand alone HTPC that you run Media portal on. This means for the most part, each computer is actually doing very little. If you could install the service on each computer to allow it use it's processing power for different jobs. Instead of 1 CPU with 100% use, you now have 3 CPUS's at 300%. Lets say you have recorded 4 new shows and now you want to compress them all at night. Instead of 1 CPU running all 4 jobs, it would see that you have a total of 3 CPUS that can do the job. Things would get done a lot quicker. The downside to this, is you would be transferring the data over the network. This is usually not a problem unless you are using a slower wireless. I am just totally throwing this out there. In MediaPortals case, it might not even work that well. There might not be any advantage to this if the network is slowing everything down, but I think it's a cool idea. [/QUOTE]

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