I have a freesat box at the moment linked to a sky dish with dual lnb's, i'm looking to "retire" the freesat box and use pvr in xbmc.
i have two options for the "backend", both are mac mini's , a 2011 running osx 10.8.2 and a 2012 bootcamped running win7 64 bit home ultimate.
the windows machine hosts my mysql database for sharing my music and video library to my other boxes around the house and is also the main xbmc based unit in the living room connected to my tv and surround sound system (bootcamped it to get hd-audio passthrough capability).
the osx mac mini hosts a filemaker server and handles email for my brothers small business and as such is already constantly on 24/7, would i need a separate instance of mysql running on this box and what kind of cpu load would a backend put on the system.
would i be better off using the windows machine or the os x machine ? , i really want to have a dual tuner setup that is hd compatible with uk freesat channels, bearing in mind that because of both the windows and osx machines being based on mac mini it would have to be a usb device.
both minis are gigabit ethernet connected to a switch so there is no issues with network bandwidth.
what about epg also (obviously dependent on which machine is going to be the backend), does this cost anything or is there a good free version around ?
i have a spare 2gb usb hard drive that can be called on for recording storage.
hopefully i have covered all relevant questions and provided enough hardware/software information for someone to give me some advice, bearing in mind that what i know about pvr would barely fill a thimble.
i'm running frodo on the main unit and on all other xbmc boxes around the house.
i have two options for the "backend", both are mac mini's , a 2011 running osx 10.8.2 and a 2012 bootcamped running win7 64 bit home ultimate.
the windows machine hosts my mysql database for sharing my music and video library to my other boxes around the house and is also the main xbmc based unit in the living room connected to my tv and surround sound system (bootcamped it to get hd-audio passthrough capability).
the osx mac mini hosts a filemaker server and handles email for my brothers small business and as such is already constantly on 24/7, would i need a separate instance of mysql running on this box and what kind of cpu load would a backend put on the system.
would i be better off using the windows machine or the os x machine ? , i really want to have a dual tuner setup that is hd compatible with uk freesat channels, bearing in mind that because of both the windows and osx machines being based on mac mini it would have to be a usb device.
both minis are gigabit ethernet connected to a switch so there is no issues with network bandwidth.
what about epg also (obviously dependent on which machine is going to be the backend), does this cost anything or is there a good free version around ?
i have a spare 2gb usb hard drive that can be called on for recording storage.
hopefully i have covered all relevant questions and provided enough hardware/software information for someone to give me some advice, bearing in mind that what i know about pvr would barely fill a thimble.
i'm running frodo on the main unit and on all other xbmc boxes around the house.