Haven't seen this on here yet!!! This guy has a neighborhood HTPC.. Pretty awesome if I say so myself -Fiz
that is pretty good tho... i admit i didnt read it all tho but i got the jist of it.. but he must have some UBER storage to record all that TV in Mpeg 4 quality.. and another good thing is that its all LEGAL which is great... would be nice if it became national and other people started doing it...
Whoa... That's the coolest thing I've seen in a LONG time! Who will be the first to find a link describing the technical details of what he's done? I'm REAL interested in the c-band myself. I've always wanted a true ala-cart selection for television.
That's impressive - particularly like the fact he has no workstation to speak of - just uses a pda as a thin client.
yeah....that guy shud show micro$oft how to do things in the home...an its all possible without any pc's in the house.....i would love to see the setup.
That server must be ****ing powerful. Lets assume you have 10 PVR tv cards, they all need to stream instantaniously (sp) encoding at around 4meg/sec. Now assume you have another 10-15 clients reading that information and 4meg/sec per client. So 40Meg/sec writing, 60Meg/sec reading... Now include backend server duties, so assume the processor is running hot all the time. Add in the huge amount of process usuage required to write at those speeds constantly. Even with a set of RAID 0ed top-of-the-range hard disks thats a mean feet...
i wounder aswell about the specs of the computers... must have a couple of 3-4Ghz processors.. and at least something like 1tb array of HDD space.. would be nice if i had something like that.. i wounder if the neighbourhood pays him for it all..
Yeah, its gotta be near 1tb, it wouldn't take long to fill up if they record everything... Infact I wouldn't be surprised if it were larger than 1tb. 8 IDE 400gig hard disks or something? A PCI TV card for each user, well most server boards dont carry more than 6 slots? Dual tuner maybe? /me thinks that couldn't hold out very long.. I think there still would be lagg with a RAID array, I mean if 15 users are all accessing different files (streaming) the head still has to seek? Okay it may not be an issue with 15 users but what happens if you upped that?
I'd expect they'd pay for using the service...not many people want to give out this sort of connectivity for free. Anyway, sounds incredibly cool. Something I'd want to get involved in if I had the money or the time.
Doesn't sound like an easy thing to do... Mutiple tuners being remotely controlled? integrated into regular tv sets. Sounds like a headache waiting to happen
Does anyone know if you can have the CPU manually tune rather than using a hardware tuner? I mean, if you could get the processer to pick whatever frequency then you wouldn't have an issue
The ten tuner cards, I've seen before (and posted here) and I don't think it's "that" CPU intensive since most of the mpeg compression is done by the tuner cards (I think ) But I can't imagine how much space is needed for this And Dad, I've been trying to find more technical details on it but haven't been able to find much, but I'm still looking -Fiz
the tuner cards would most likely be hauppauge PVRs (hardware encoders) and yes, with the 500, you can get dual tuner action. i'm quite sure that he's got a few different servers running though. prolly a nice rackmount setup w/ several 4u boxes... droooool... my htpc is suffering badly over here because the cable is all scrambled, and without a IRBlaster i can't tune the cable box. I've got a pair of 250s, but only room for one in my LC02. I'm thinking of a DVine 5 or an ahanix HT400 as a replacement so I can add a few more tuners in the future.
