Which hardware do I need for a dedicated TV server (1 Viewer)

Farhope

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Hi All,
At the moment I am running mediaportal TV-SERVER on a dedicated Windows Home Server (MS Server 2003).

My dedicated TV-SERVER configuration:

AMD64 SEMPRON 2800+
ASUS K8N nforce3
2x Technotrend CI-1501 DVB-C
No video card installed

Watching SD channels on my Mediaportal CLIENT works fine (TV-SERVER processor is around 70% of load). When I switch to a HD channel the TV-SERVER processor load is jumping up to 100% and results in heavy shuttering on my Mediaportal CLIENT. (not surprising :rolleyes:)

So my questions are:
  • Do I have to buy a new motherboard/CPU or will installing a video card (with hardware MPEG2/H264 acceleration) resolve the problem on my dedicated TV-SERVER.
  • Will a AMD Athlon II X2 240 (AM3) 2.8GHZ or a Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core E5200 2.5GHZ be enough to stream/record 2x HD channels (2x Technotrend 1501 DVB-C TV cards) on my dedicated TV-SERVER

:D in advance.

UPDATE: just found out what was going wrong. Never put your record directory on WHS share: \\home-server\recorded TV but put it in d:\shares\record TV. WHS drive extender was eating my processor trying to synchronize the recorded TV.

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