Peter Guy wrote:
> Hello, I am currently planning to put together a tv headend server for my home. I have a n54l sat doing nothing. Which would be better ? Cost wise I would be spending about the same despite which option I choose . My plans are to have quad DVB-s2 tuner with openmediavault as the Base OS
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>Do you think the n54l or the raspberry pi 3 would be the better solution?
I use the HP N36L here with 5 Tuners (2 USB DVB-T2, 1 DVB-S pcie, 1 dual DVB-S/DVB-T2 pcie) and it handles it all perfectly, it even just about manages to do transcoding although it does tax it quite a bit.
I've also ran Tvheadend on an Pi1 and Pi2 both handle Tvheadend fine, however don't expect miracles, the limiting factor here will be the single USB bus shared between the ports and Ethernet, the most I've streamed (with glitching) is 45mbps, so it should handle streaming 2 HD channels fine, but YMMV.
