2015-02-20, 23:32
You don't need a powerful machine for a pvr backend, unless doing things like com skip.
I ran tvheadend on a basic synology nas for a few years and, even with 1ghz processor, it barely got above 10% cpu usage.
Now got a wetek running dual dvb-s2 recording to a newer nas accross the LAN and it works very well, even running oscam on it.
And the PQ is fabulous for live TV on the wetek. My TV library is fairly large but easily navigable (all scanning is doing on one of my other machines to a shared sql db though).
The cost of a dual dvb-s2 to IP box would be about the same as the wetek, it's fantastic value if you want live TV.
I ran tvheadend on a basic synology nas for a few years and, even with 1ghz processor, it barely got above 10% cpu usage.
Now got a wetek running dual dvb-s2 recording to a newer nas accross the LAN and it works very well, even running oscam on it.
And the PQ is fabulous for live TV on the wetek. My TV library is fairly large but easily navigable (all scanning is doing on one of my other machines to a shared sql db though).
The cost of a dual dvb-s2 to IP box would be about the same as the wetek, it's fantastic value if you want live TV.