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03-02-2010, 06:44 AM
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Advantage of a Network Encoder?
So I have parts for an extra PC lying around that I was thinking of throwing my 2250 into and using it as a network encoder. I have a WHS box that had 4 gigs of ram, had to pull some out to make it stable w/ the 2250. But it seems like I get a lot of stutter when trying to watch some recorded shows, not sure if too much is going on in the WHS box while stuff is recording or what, so I thought, why not pull the 2250 out and let it record on the spare PC while the WHS box is the actual sage server.
Any advantages/disadvantages to this? I'm running a gig network. Appreciate any thoughts anyone has, thanks!
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03-02-2010, 08:42 AM
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advantages:
Potentially the ability to increase your tuner count higher than a single PC could handle. The ability to use older tuners in the network encoder that, say, aren't compatible with something newer in the main server. disadvantages: and extra PC to be running 24/7 If all your storage is still on the main server, you have that extra stream or two on the network going from network encoder to server. This could be alliviated by putting some storage on the network encoder, and locking those encoders to that storage. Cost. This requires another $80 SageTV full license.
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03-02-2010, 09:37 AM
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Yeah. Atleast make sure it records to a seperate drive from the WHS OS and is set up for 64K clusters.
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03-02-2010, 11:37 AM
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Mitch, when you say separate drive, you mean a separate physical drive? For instance, the OS is on C, and then Data (D) is the rest of the first disk, which C also happens to be on. I'm guessing I should have set it up so that the OS and ONLY the OS was on a smaller drive in my system and all the other drives are allocated to only the data pool. Is that what you're saying?
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03-02-2010, 12:38 PM
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Yeah, I have my recordings set up on a seperate physical drive. I dont use WHS for my sage server, though. Lots of folks use the pool without any studdering troubles.
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03-04-2010, 07:30 AM
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you can use separate one - dvbe4sage ( http://code.google.com/p/dvbe4sage/ )that allows you to record all channels from one transponder at same time. we have like 20 channels on transporder, with single dvb card, you can record and watch all of them at same time.
i use dvbe4sage for view YES Israel and Platforma HD Russia. i run 2 instances of dvbe4sage on sagetv server, each instance connected to few of DVB-S2 cards. i also use epgfromdvb to download epg from dvb stream.
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03-04-2010, 09:33 AM
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dvbe4sage isn't of much use in the states (where the OP is).
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