[mythtv-users] Tuner Card w/ Svideo Inputs & PCI Sound Transfer

[Ian Neubert]

Kyle Rose wrote:
>Ian Neubert wrote:
>> The PCI bus will brobably get the workout. Thanks for the tips! They're
been
>> very helpful.
>
>Even "slow" 32-bit, 33MHz PCI will do 130 MBytes/sec, at least as much
>as four SATA drives can do.  The biggest wildcard is the capture
>cards: MPEG/ATSC cards produce a miniscule amount of data compared to
>the width of PCI, while simple frame grabbers could easily clog it.
>YMMV.

Thanks for the clarification Kyle. I will be using 5 MPEG/ATSC cards, so
they won't use framegrabber, ie much less bandwidth on the PCI bus than 5
analog tuners, where analog means that they spew out analog video data to
the PCI bus.

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