[mythtv-users] What's the practical limit on capture cards?

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Tue Mar 25 11:25:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:34:12PM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> So long as all of the capture cards have hardware encoders, you will run out of 
> slots before you run out of cpu power, a full ATSC stream is only about 
> 2MBytes/second which even 10 at the same time is pretty simple for just about 
> any recent desktop machine to handle.

And if you can use USB or ethernet-attached ATSC recorders, you
will run out of disk bandwidth first. When I have 2 HD programs
coming from the HDHomeRun, my Athon 3500XP is only 1.2% busy...

-dsr-

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