Capabilities of Beyond TV and Snapstream Enterprise

[Timothy Larr]

I am looking to do a 6 to 8 tuner system - no recording necessary - all live stream to a projector - most resolutions with be HDTV or 1080p. Can Beyond TV or Snapstream Enterprise handles this?

If so has someone done it? What kind of hardware? What are the software capabilites? Window resizing? Zoom? Etc.

Thanks
Tim.

[merrypig]

If you're not recording, why wouldn't you just feed the set top box direct to a projector

[Timothy Larr]

Originally Posted by merrypig

If you're not recording, why wouldn't you just feed the set top box direct to a projector

Looking to handle 6 to 8 feeds simultaneously - figured a Snapstream product would help with the management of displaying and configuring/displaying all sources

[merrypig]

BTV will only let you watch one at a time on that pc. You'd need to use a different application or multiple btv link clients (ie multiple remote pc's ) to watch more than one show.

If you don't mind having a link client (ie a seperate pc) hooked up to each projector then you'd be ok. You'd still have to 'control' each remote client - and deal with remote control conflicts and such like - you couldn't have the server coordinate each stream for example as it's requested not pushed.

What ss/enterprise/btv would do for you tho is as you say, let you manage a program guide, or the capture of the 6-8 streams simultaneously.

You will need fairly beefy link client graphic cards to handle the 1080p (and a decent cpu probably). You'll also need to use gigabit ethernet to handle the 8 streams.

(~20mbps per hdtv stream, 8 streams => 160mbps minimum networking bandwidth.. in practise, you'd want probably 300mbps + )