[K12OSN] MythTV and K12LTSP

[Calvin Dodge]

On 10/25/07, Mark Trimble <matrimble at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know if it is possible to install MythTV
> (http://www.mythtv.org/) on a K12LTSP (v6) server and use it's thin clients
> as MythTV clients?

Install?  Yes.

Use thin clients as Mythtv clients?  Doubtful.
Why? Straight video uses a lot of network bandwidth.

It might be doable IF mythtv can be run as a local application on each
client - that would drop the bandwidth to around 350KBps. For that
each client would need at least 700-800 MHz OR hardware MPEG2 decoding
(which works only if all video is in MPEG2 format). I know that some
people have been successful using certain VIA motherboards with said
hardware decoding as diskless frontends - you might check the
mythtv-users email archives for their experiences.

Calvin