Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients
Added by Timo S almost 9 years ago
Hi mates
searching trough the internet... now landed here....
i want to build up a streaming server based on some sat tuners @19,2°... have some question to the hardware.
following is needed:
- sat tuners that host 10-16 clients can watch live tv
- clients are based on kodi, iphone, android and dreamboxes
- cpu, ram, os....
its all local on a network with 1gbit speed.
currently setup:
100 cm dish with quattro lnb and 5/16 multiswitch
thanks
Replies (8)
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by Timo S almost 9 years ago
after some hours i think that i can solve the situation better with some dvb-c tuners... cable is also available
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by András Frankovics almost 9 years ago
Do you want transcoding or just pass-through?
Without transcoding you don't need a big machine. A Raspberry Pi based server could handle 5-6 client with ease.
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by Timo S almost 9 years ago
with transcoding.... i have also a server machine but i think its oversized
dual xeon 2690v2 socket 2011 and 64gb memory each cpu
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by Prof Yaffle almost 9 years ago
Transcoding of what, to what is then your major limiting factor. Transcoding to SD MPEG-2 is light enough... transcoding 4k H.265/HEVC is a different story altogether.... doing it to multiple streams in realtime, and you need a serious (and I mean serious!) machine. Since I'd guess that dual Xeon ~ perhaps 6 x top-end i7... not that over-spec'ed if you're transcoding that many streams; I suspect it'd struggle with that many high profile H.264 realtime outputs, for example, so you'd still have to trade something. Run some concurrent Handbrake/x.264 jobs and see what it can do and see the balance of quality vs time/CPU effort.
Streaming, you can get a view in terms of the bitrate of your sources, the number of sources, and thus the concurrent bandwidth you need from both HDD I/O (if they're local files) and network I/O (local or live streams); RAM will help cache things, assuming you can read from disc faster than it's needed (which should be the case but might start to struggle if you have energy-efficient/long-life HDDs and lots of simultaneous streams - I presume transcoding buffers to disk somewhere). Even your disc config can help in that instance.
OS... well, tvh is a Linux application, so I doubt you'd get many votes for anything else
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by Timo S almost 9 years ago
as first... i want to stream HD live TV only... no 4k
but thank you for your help...
now i need some infos if i should use dvb-c or dvb-s and which tuner models
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by Timo S almost 9 years ago
find a good product... Haupauge TV-HVR-2205
is this version or card supported by tvheadend?
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by András Frankovics almost 9 years ago
It's only a DVB-T card if I read it right. So it depends only the linux firmware Tvheadend could use it. If a good, stable firmware exists, you can use it with tvh.
RE: Hardware requirements for Server <10 Clients - Added by Timo S almost 9 years ago
or Digital Devices Max S8 TV Card for sat solution