May 24, 200719 yr Since my box is... well pretty underutilized... I'd like to be able to run it as a slave mythtv backend to do something like transcoding or commercial flagging (or even throw a tuner or two into the extra pci slots)... I realize this is out there... but it would be nice to be able to get some more use out of the hardware...
May 25, 200719 yr Interesting. My box is only half built but I have been thinking along the same lines. Transcoding is critical for me since I want to have two copies of each movie stored: one for primary viewing in the home theater (fat file, low level of compression) and the other for streaming wirelessly to the kids' computers (tiny file, massive compression - DivX/Xvid). I would love to be able to load up the movie, then cron a transcode job to run in offpeak hours. Commercial detection would be nice as well. I haven't yet (d)evolved to Tivo, but I will. I guess I could do it via my Windows box, but I went low-brow with my main internet surfing machine that also serves as my primary desktop. The kids have the dual core, I have 0.5 cores (Sempron) ;-) Bill
May 25, 200719 yr Author You don't even have to cron to get it to transcode... you can have mythtv record -> comm flag -> transcode all for you... assuming your boxen are powerful enough (mine is not, my myth backend is a P4 1.8a and it's not so good at the high CPU stuff (like transcoding). Great for HD recording since it's got 5 PCI slots
May 25, 200719 yr A feature not on the list along these lines is 'on-the-fly' transcoding. The way it would work is that you have your primary media file(s) with a known file extension. Then there would be a "pseudo" file entry for the same file but with a different extension. This file would take up no physical space, but when read, would access the main file and trascode it on-the-fly.
May 25, 200719 yr A feature not on the list along these lines is 'on-the-fly' transcoding. The way it would work is that you have your primary media file(s) with a known file extension. Then there would be a "pseudo" file entry for the same file but with a different extension. This file would take up no physical space, but when read, would access the main file and trascode it on-the-fly. Oooooooh! Me want. I'm glad I decided to go with a multicore since this would inevitably tax the CPU. Bill
June 10, 200719 yr When I first learned about the unRAID I though of the same thing. At the time I realised it would be of limited(or no) utility without some swap space. I also began to think that with 2 or more (S)ATA cards + tuners + GigE the PCI bus may become overloaded. I got to thinking recently that if we aren't bound to a hard limit of 12 drives, this as swap combined with transcode could offer some nice potential to use those extra cpu cycles.
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