tvserver maximum clients? (1 Viewer)

[joshsaunders]

Hi Guy's
just a quick question, does anyone know what the limitation would be with tvserver and number of connected clients.
if i have a tv server with 4 analogue cards in it how many people could i get jumping on the streams before i ran into problems?
what sort of hardware would you recommend for streaming to as many clients as possible (4 separate analogue streams)
thanks to all and anyone who might be able to help

Josh

 

[funkstar]

I have no idea if TVServer has any built in limitation, but i suspect it is all down to your available hardware.

Your analogue cards are going to be software encoded to MPEG-2 right? so you are going to need enough horse power for that and running the TVServer and SQL etc. a nice beafy Core2Quad should do the trick. you also want a nice lump of RAM.

Timeshifting buffer.You want this on as fast a sub system as possible. perhaps a couple of disks in RAID-1, perhaps SSDs are the way to go, not sure. Or you could always get a RAM drive card but they are really spendy.

then you can connect all this to the network using a couple of load balanced gigabit network cards. the Intel server cards are cracking. Oh and a nice gigabit switch. doesn't matter if the clients are connected with gigbit or not, they won't need that kind of bandwidth.

do all that help at all? Not gone overboard have I?

 

[mbuzina]

I guess using HW accelerated analogue cards is the real way to go, why use expensive CPU if a relativly cheap encoder can be used?