[Klug-general] Media server for college

[Karl Buckland]

I believe MythTV will now record channels from the same multiplex from
one tuner, so if BBC1 and BBC2 are on the same multiplex, you'll only
need 1 tuner to record them both.

For digital TV through an aerial, BBC1 and BBC2 are on one MUX. ITV,
C4 and C5 are on another. So MythTV could record all channels from 2
cards, potentially.

I'm not sure on satellite cards, but the MythTV website has plenty of
info on supported hardware. I'd generally recommend Hauppauge.

You're also going to want to consider hard disk space - you're going
to need quite a bit of it to record 840 hours of TV! I think an hour
comes in at about 1.5Gb normally, so that would be 1260Gb roughly. If
you want to compress/re-encode the video to reduce the file size then
that will require significant CPU resources to happen in real time.

Karl



2009/11/27 Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/27 Nathan Friend <nathan.friend at gmail.com>:
>> Morning,
>> The college I work at is looking to build a media server.  The plan is to
>> record channels 1-5 24/7 with a short retention (5 days) then programs
>> required for longer clipped out and put into a media library.
>> Any recommendations for this kind of setup?  We already have the digital
>> satellite feeds.  Particularly interested in decoder cards with multiple
>> digital satellite inputs, and Linux compatibility.
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan.
>
>
> There are companies that provide servers like that for education but
> they cost a bomb.
> Like this one http://www.clickview.co.uk/247/
>
> Colin
>
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