[mythtv] XMLTV Spanish, gist, DVB & localization

Matthew S. Hallacy poptix at techmonkeys.org
Sat Apr 19 21:28:26 EDT 2003


On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 02:39:51AM +0200, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Edward Wildgoose wrote:
> 
> >Basically the current crop of DVB cards can demux an mpeg2 stream 
> >directly, you "simply" need to call a command to choose the frequency.
> 
> For me, the ability to do that in userspace and that you can receive 
> several channels at once with one tuner is one of the more interesting 
> things about DVB. Or are CPUs / memory- / PCI busses too slow for that, 
> esp. with e.g. 3 tuners and 7 channels?

Assuming 7 12mbit channels across 3 tuners:

((12,000,000 * 7) * 3) = 252,000,000 bps (252mbit)

easily attained. (I've had quad port 100mbit ethernet cards max out 
doing 400mbit full duplex, without problems)

> Ben

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