[mythtv-users] Central Storage

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Brent Norris <brent at brentnorris.net> wrote:
> noelcollins at optusnet.com.au wrote:
>
>> How many streams (HD or SD) can a P4 2.4GHz CPU handle concurrently. I was
>> limiting each machine to 2 streams from 1 card.
>> These machines are to be in a rack (behind a DVD cabinet); in a non-air
>> conditioned room (summer ambient up to 40 deg C); only have 200W PSU's and
>> are USED, I don't want to work them too hard.
>
> If you are using cards that encode the SD on the card then pretty much as
> many as you have cards for and your IO can handle.  HD cards and SD mpeg
> cards don't use the CPU at all (or very very little) when they are
> recording.

Or if you are capturing a digital stream :)