felixrosbergen
Senior Member
So i think i may get a PVR-500 so i can have 2 tuners for essentially 'basic expanded cable'.
Whats card are suitable for premium channels (not HD, but HBO, etc) ? Or do all these card capture a video out from am STB as well?
Also i am looking to build an energy efficeint rackmount SageTV server which will also run CQC server and some other minor things. Can anybody recommend some hardware? I've seen some recommendation on a Abit IP35 for running SageTV Media Server, can this mobo made to be energy efficeint?
The following would be the requirements on the server:
- Be energy efficeint
- Be rackmountable
- Support at least 4 'tuners' (so at least 2 or 3 cards)
- Support HD component capture (i understand this is currently only via USB).
- Support serial expansion card (to control lighting, thermsostats, AV Receiver, etc)
- Support at least 4 SATA hard drives (2 drives in mirror mode for OS and 'critical' data, 2 other drives for video storage). I may want to use the WD 'green' drives.
- Support 2 to 3 SageTV HD media extenders (i.e. not transcoding needs)
Questions are:
- WHat mobo is recommended?
- What rackmount chasis and PSU are recommend?
- Minimum CPU/RAM needs?
Any words of advice woudl be greatly appreciated.
Whats card are suitable for premium channels (not HD, but HBO, etc) ? Or do all these card capture a video out from am STB as well?
Also i am looking to build an energy efficeint rackmount SageTV server which will also run CQC server and some other minor things. Can anybody recommend some hardware? I've seen some recommendation on a Abit IP35 for running SageTV Media Server, can this mobo made to be energy efficeint?
The following would be the requirements on the server:
- Be energy efficeint
- Be rackmountable
- Support at least 4 'tuners' (so at least 2 or 3 cards)
- Support HD component capture (i understand this is currently only via USB).
- Support serial expansion card (to control lighting, thermsostats, AV Receiver, etc)
- Support at least 4 SATA hard drives (2 drives in mirror mode for OS and 'critical' data, 2 other drives for video storage). I may want to use the WD 'green' drives.
- Support 2 to 3 SageTV HD media extenders (i.e. not transcoding needs)
Questions are:
- WHat mobo is recommended?
- What rackmount chasis and PSU are recommend?
- Minimum CPU/RAM needs?
Any words of advice woudl be greatly appreciated.