Is there a MythTV Guru in the house?

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Current setup



Win 7 MediaCenter box in the lounge with 2 DVB-S2 cards connected to 2
ports
of a quad LNB dish.



Desired setup



MythTV frontend in lounge (have one of the bargain Acer Revo boxes sitting
on the shelf ready for this duty - I know it's not right to buy bargain
stuff from the list and actually use it - sorry!)

MythTV backend / database running on a 24*7 server (have a spare 1Tb disk
ready to add for recordings) to allow me to watch recorded TV either via
the
frontend in the lounge or via any other networked PC / device.

MythTV backend in garage (easy run to dish to connect to the LNB)
containing
the 2 DVB-S2 cards (and potentially another 1 or 2 cards and possibly a
DVB-T if I can be bothered to put in a new aerial at some point). This
backend to have small local storage for live TV buffer, but main recording
to store on the main backend. This box to switch on & off on demand for
live
TV and also for scheduled recording.



Servers are on a 1G backbone, frontends are mostly still on 100M, but could
patch a 1G through to the lounge if necessary (I knew there was a reason
for
laying spare Cat 5!)



Ideally a simple method to transfer the Win 7 recordings (some HD, some SD)
to a format that Myth will play.



Simple? Any issues with this setup? Any guides?



Thanks in advance.



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