http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4459Why bother creating an HTPC that can record 11 TV channels? If you're a company that creates PVR software... why not!?
The creators of Beyond TV, SnapStream, have made a few beefy HTPCs in the past, but they've topped them all with their latest effort. It's not the smallest, it's not the quietest, but it sure is powerful, and probably the most featureful HTPC ever, if TV's your thing, anyway.
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Anyone know needs to record 11 channels seriously needs to reconsider their lifestyle!!!
That guy is a bit nutz.
Last edited by Bull Dog; 21-01-2006 at 04:06 AM.
See System Specs.
He/they need to record so much TV because they spend all the time that they should be watching it... building systems to record it so they can get a chance to watch what they missed whilst doing so.
Daft rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish.
not particularly impressed. this seems like an exercise in building the most expensive machine possible, not in a practical solution.
beyondtv might not have a theoretical limit to the number of tuners it can use (most non-xpmce apps don't), but there are little things like the laws of physics - four HDTV streams is about 40mbit of data to stream to disk, seven analog tuners means seven concurrent transcode jobs..... it's not practical, and it's certainly too noisy for the living room. and in the end, what use is 11 tuners in a single box?
far more useful would be some kind of solution where the big noisy tv-encoder box sits in a wardrobe somewhere, and small epia-based boxes could be elsewhere in the box, making use of any number of those tuners through the network. wouldn't that be neat...
Wouldn't it be nice if VLC could capture from BDA.Originally Posted by directhex
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Their analog tuners are PVR-500s so are MPEG-2 in hardware. If they were to leave eveything in it's native format, they shouldn't use much CPU at all. However it would be very IO intensive.
If you are going to build systems like that (not that anyone is, but in theory) MythTV is a far more scalable solution. You can either chuck it all in a nice big server case in the basement and have a diskless, perhaps even fanless frontend in the living room. Or you can split the backend into multiple systems (slave and master backends) to spread tuners out.
The Godzilla might be good hardware pr0n, but other than that is isn't exactly practical. Not to mention that they do not support DVB cards so it is pointless here. With 5 DVB-T cards you can, in theory, record everything single thing broadcast on Freeview
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