[Klug-general] Media server for college

[Nathan Friend]

Interesting maybe better to go down the digital aerial route.  We had a look
at ClickView but as you say it's expensive.

Nathan.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Karl Buckland <karl at digital-end.com> wrote:

> 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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