On 27 May 2003 12:24:41 +0800 mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 21:51, Stian Davidsen wrote: > > <snip> > > > The most important consideration > > > is the PCI bus is only 33mbps, so you may have issues running say > > > 2 tv cards and something else like a firewire or mpeg encoder card > > > at the same time.. > > > > The PCI bus is 132 MB/s = 1gbps. > > So unless you use both a gigabit nic and a firewire card on the same > > bus, you're probably in the clear. > > Well I never.. 1gbps is much faster than I thought it was, thats > great news for people thinking of using more than tv card for > recording... I thought the PCI bus was the limiting factor, i guess > me and a few others were wrong..
Well, it's 1gbps but you still have to worry about latency, contention,
etc.
You shouldn't have any trouble with two capture devices. Start running
three, and maybe you'll start to have trouble.
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