[mythtv-users] multiple tuner question

[Richard J. Finn]

	Would you also need multiple cable set top boxes to make such an 
arrangment work, or just a coax cable splitter?

Ray Olszewski wrote:

> At 10:23 AM 6/18/2003 -0400, John Goulah wrote:
> 
>> Hey,
>>
>>  Finally got mythtv working great and I just had a quick question about
>> multiple tuners. Right now I only have one tuner and when I am 
>> recording it
>> won't let me watch live tv because "all inputs are in use". Will adding a
>> second tuner allow me to watch tv while recording?
> 
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> 
> The "in principle" qualification is this: your CPU does not have 
> unlimited processing speed, so if you keep adding tuners to the system, 
> you will eventually exceed its ability to encode and decode streams. Or 
> (if you are using tuners with hardware encoding), at some point you will 
> hit some other resource limitation, such as hard-disk transfer rate, 
> memory allocation, or ... well, those are the main ones I can think of. 
> I guess bus speed, conceivably. What the actual bottleneck will be 
> depends on all of your hardware.
>