[mythtv-users] DVB-S support and mythtv

[Ben Bucksch]

jbeuree at rogers.com wrote:

>Would the issue around cards not being able to prefilter cause a significantly larger load on the PCI bus?
>
I don't think that PCI is an issue, I think we have a TS of maybe 
16Mbit/s or something in that area. I was more concerned about RAM 
bandwidth. But I don't think that's going to be a problem either. It's 
not *that* much of data to process.

If anybody has more concrete data about the size of transport streams 
and the load that PID filtering and TS->PS conversion brings per card, 
I'd like to know it.

In any case, I think the code should work with both types of card. But I 
don't know, I'll need to test it.

>I'd eventually like to have a machine with a couple of these cards (and maybe even keep a cable tuner in it also).
>
me too. Note that they are limited to 4 per machine, I think.

>But if this would prevent this setup I may be better off getting a better card.
>
I will personally go with 2 Nova cards and maybe keeping the analog card 
for backup.