I use 3 budget dvb cards with no problems recording 3 streams and watch ing one of them while recoding. I think also hd recording can be done with this cards, because the data is not decoded by the card and so hd is only a strem with a higher bitrate.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Graham TerMarsch Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 07:33 An: Discussion about mythtv Betreff: Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded? On Thursday 13 October 2005 4:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. I just dropped a PVR-150 into my MythTV machine here, to go along-side of the two PVR-250s that were in it already. Several times a week we've got all three of them recording, while -also- watching something that we'd previously recorded. Funnier yet, I -know- that my box is a bit underpowered; its a 1GHz Athlon, 640MB RAM, runs on a single 200GB WD driver on ATA-100, and uses an Nvidia Geforce4 MX 4000 board for the TV-Out. NOT the beefiest of boxes, but I (and my wife) have been quite happy with it. We did have a few ivtv driver related issues when I put the PVR-150 in it, but I'm hoping that ivtv-0.4.0 resolved the drop-outs we were getting (if not, I'm sure I'll be in the dog house again). Quality wise, all three boards are recording at the default MythTV settings; I can't remember going in and twiddling them when I installed the machine. If you're planning on recording multiple streams, do yourself the favour and get a board that does hardware MPEG encoding. CPU usage on this machine is ~5% when recording 1 stream. I haven't checked on it when we're recording 3 streams and watching a recording, but it hasn't choked on us yet. :) -- Graham TerMarsch _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
