Hein Rigolo wrote:
> first ... do the math on bandwith:
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> 100+ rooms .. each watching a High Def channel for 12Mbps each. So that would require at least 1200Mbps network connection to your single server. Then the CPU power required to decode these channels will require you to have a lot of CPU power, so a single core processor would not be enough.
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> Then there are the limitation on the sat cards: Which server has enough bandwidth and slots for 85 PCI cards? or USB bandwidth?
> Then there is the Linux Kernel limitations on DVB cards. Currently that is set to 8, but can be changed by compiling a custom kernel.
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> Concurrent connections are limited by hardware ...
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> So ... I do not think it is feasible to use tvheadend "out of the box" for such an installation. Also, what kind of clients would you put in each room? and what is the cost for those?
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> Hein
So it would be better to use mumudvb with multicast transmision. It will take about 21Mb/s for entire dvb-t mux. You can use even thousand of clients .... it doesn't metter.