Interesting maybe better to go down the digital aerial route. We had a look at ClickView but as you say it's expensive.<div><br></div><div>Nathan.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Karl Buckland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@digital-end.com">karl@digital-end.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I believe MythTV will now record channels from the same multiplex from<br>
one tuner, so if BBC1 and BBC2 are on the same multiplex, you'll only<br>
need 1 tuner to record them both.<br>
<br>
For digital TV through an aerial, BBC1 and BBC2 are on one MUX. ITV,<br>
C4 and C5 are on another. So MythTV could record all channels from 2<br>
cards, potentially.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure on satellite cards, but the MythTV website has plenty of<br>
info on supported hardware. I'd generally recommend Hauppauge.<br>
<br>
You're also going to want to consider hard disk space - you're going<br>
to need quite a bit of it to record 840 hours of TV! I think an hour<br>
comes in at about 1.5Gb normally, so that would be 1260Gb roughly. If<br>
you want to compress/re-encode the video to reduce the file size then<br>
that will require significant CPU resources to happen in real time.<br>
<br>
Karl<br>
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2009/11/27 Colin McCarthy <<a href="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com">binarysignal@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> 2009/11/27 Nathan Friend <<a href="mailto:nathan.friend@gmail.com">nathan.friend@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> Morning,<br>
>> The college I work at is looking to build a media server. The plan is to<br>
>> record channels 1-5 24/7 with a short retention (5 days) then programs<br>
>> required for longer clipped out and put into a media library.<br>
>> Any recommendations for this kind of setup? We already have the digital<br>
>> satellite feeds. Particularly interested in decoder cards with multiple<br>
>> digital satellite inputs, and Linux compatibility.<br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>> Nathan.<br>
><br>
><br>
> There are companies that provide servers like that for education but<br>
> they cost a bomb.<br>
> Like this one <a href="http://www.clickview.co.uk/247/" target="_blank">http://www.clickview.co.uk/247/</a><br>
><br>
> Colin<br>
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