Switch from MCE backend

[cdvreede]

Hello there - new to forum - in the process of finding an alternative backend for FTA TV from my MCE/Win7/6 DVB-T tuner/ 1Gb cabled setup here in Sydney, Australia. Clients are all Kodi - 17.6 - running on Pi/MiBox/FireTV/Win10/Minix U9. I've set up a testbed Win10 rig with NextPVR and a single tuner, pointed a Client to it and using a Webgrabplus+ scraped guide. Works fine so far...

Rather than testing each and every scenario before switching I hope you guys can answer a couple of Q's I have..

1) I read about NextPVR being able to extract multiple streams from a single tuner locked in on a given frequency. MCE cannot do that. Does that mean that if there are 5 frequencies that I want to use I can cover those with 5 tuners - each of which can be recording one or more streams at the same time?
2) what capacity would a Win10/i3/8GB rig have in terms of concurrent recording and streaming?? My current rig often records 6 streams in parallel will serving a couple of playback streams at the same time - from the same HW using Win7/MCE.
3) NextPVR is capable of writing to a file server rather than local storage - great feature, MCE cannot. How does that work with multiple streams an time shifting?? Running GigE so network should not really be an issue - any other bottlenecks??
4) Does CC (closed caption - australian way) work?? If not, any way of extracting from the .TS file?
4) any gotcha's I should be aware of?? Planning to run a Kodi Client and WebGrabplus+ on the same box with recorded TV onto the file server.

Any feedback much appreciated!!

thnx

D.

[mvallevand]

1 - Yes, for DVB. except I assume DVB-S would need more than a frequency match.
2 - Fine
3 - That would depend on the file server performance so YMMV, especially if you are playing (seeking) and recording.
4 - Since it sounds like Kodi is your client that is a Kodi question, and depending on the box h/w things can be different, but Kodi does support DVB and Teletext subtitles as well as North American standards.
Another 4) If some of your clients run wireless that might also be impacted by heavy load and buffering from the server or backend.

Martin