Thanks for the input. Right now I have a BT8x8 card. I'm going to upgrade to a hauppauge pvr-500 some time soon, but right now I'm trying to learn with what I have. Is it better to go that route, or is it a whole other learning curve when I move to the hardware based encoder cards? I'm just getting started in all of this, so I'm afraid you all might have to tolerate a few poorly worded questions until I get my feet on firm ground. :)
--Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Votour Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:50 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded? I've recorded three SD streams off of analog cable using a PVR-350 and a PVR-500, while watching a fourth (or sometimes one of the three). The CPU usage for the recording is very low because of the hardware MPEG-2 encoders in the capture cards. No loss in stream quality. The question that you ask is very vague, because you don't mention what capture hardware you have. An analog BT8x8 card is much more CPU intensive than a PVR-x50, for instance. I don't think that you can capture an HD stream (though I may be wrong on this). There are no HD capture cards that I'm aware of (the bandwidth for HD is insanely huge), and the set-top boxes that support Firewire output downsample the output (how far, I don't know). -- Joe --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My apologies if this has been asked and answered already, but I > searched the archives and couldn't find the answer. > > What is the most number of streams anyone on the list has > simultaneously recorded without problem? I assume recording 2 streams > while watching a third has been done, but has it been done with no > loss in quality, etc? > How about 3 streams? HD + an analog stream? I'd like to get an idea > of what my limitations and potentials are before I get too deep in my > current project. > > --Andy > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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