Recording to a fileserver

[scooby_doo]

I already have a 'fileserver' PC hidden in the house with a couple hundred GBs of storage. I wondering how well it would work to have the GB-PVR system save the data to the network drive. Has anyone tried this for good or bad? Realistically the throughput shouldn't be that bad, it would be more the latency. I have evertyhing running 100MB full duplex.

[scooby_doo]

Wow, excellent feedback, thanks. I haven't taken the time to tweak any of the settings, but it sounds ike a good idea now.

[Guest]

Sorry can you clarify for me a bit? I am researching GB-PVR as a solution for a multi-room setup. Will this scenario work?

1) Setup a centalized backend server with GB-PVR with multiple encoding cards to record multiple sources simultaneously (ex 2 cards and two satellite receivers)
2) At each TV (I have 3) place a MediaMVP to act as a client and point at the backend server.

In this mode can I watch live TV and recorded content from either of the 2 sources on each of the TV's simultaneously?

Or am I going to need a PC for every MediaMVP/TV?

[Guest]

Alternatively if I have multiple PCs (one per TV) each with an encoder card can I share the content recorded by each PC across units? If do how can you configure one to browse the content of another?

I suppose you could use the video library feature but without installing the software I was not sure how the system names files - so will it be obvious what the recording contains (i.e. metadata about the show visible somehow)?

Thanks.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]1) Setup a centalized backend server with GB-PVR with multiple encoding cards to record multiple sources simultaneously (ex 2 cards and two satellite receivers)
2) At each TV (I have 3) place a MediaMVP to act as a client and point at the backend server.

Yes, you can do that.

[scooby_doo]

tipster maybe this will ring a bell with you so I don't have to hassle sub with it (feel free to answer anyway sub). I have the fileserver with a big RAID drive configured and the GBPVR pc both running Windows 2000 Professional. I have a drive mapping I: from the workstation to \\server\d$. I can open the drive and use GBPVR file library to play clips from I:. When I configure GBPVR to go to i:\GBPVR my record never starts. It talk about path problems (I'd have to try it again and cut and paste the logs. The interesting thing is that the as soon as I try and record in GBPVR the i: drive icon get the red X through like it is disconnected but I can open it in explorer just fin, the X goes away, and this repeats endlessly. Did you ever experience any issues with this. The only setting I have tweaked at this time is on the server 'net config server /autodisconnect:-1" so the drive should staty open all the time. Thanks.

[jquinlan]

Also make sure the GBPVR service has access to the shared drive. The recording service works under another login ID, so the mapped drive is not available to the service, only the desktop session you are logged in as. You may also be able to place the UNC path into GBPVR so it can save your recording to the proper shared drive, not drive letter.

[sub]

jquinlan is correct. The GB-PVR Recording Service runs as another user, so cant see your mapped drives.

[scooby_doo]

Ok that makes sense to me now. So knowing that, instead I tried setting the path be be the UNC to a folder that is shared with full control for everyone and that seems to fail. Is there a way to make GBPVR record to a networked drive? Can I add a mapping as the GBPVR user? Thanks for the info so far.

[zfinxen]

Quote[/b] ]1) Setup a centalized backend server with GB-PVR with multiple encoding cards to record multiple sources simultaneously (ex 2 cards and two satellite receivers)
2) At each TV (I have 3) place a MediaMVP to act as a client and point at the backend server.

With this setup can I also watch Live TV on each of the clients? If so will it work using client pc instead of MVP?

//Zfinxen