[mythtv-users] Has anybody put together a three tuner system ?

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Sun Jun 1 14:13:45 EDT 2003


cmisip wrote:
> Is this even possible.  I have an XP2400 athlon and wonder if this is
> powerful enough for this setup.  I recently was able to free 2 pci
> slots.  

I did run a system with three cards once just to verify
that the scheduler would work correctly. I would not
recommend more than two cards per machine simply because
there is so much resource contention (not just CPU). Two
'cheap' machines with two tuners each will give you better
recordings than a tricked out machine to try to handle
three. The problem is that you have to set your recording
parameters low enough that it can handle three if it ever
happens. Most of the time, you'd have a very expensive
machine that is mostly dormant putting out low res files.

--  bjm

-------------- next part --------------
: bjm at nordvid ; mythbackend
Starting up as the master server.
Probed: /dev/video - Television
Probed: /dev/video - Composite1
Probed: /dev/video - S-Video
Probed: /dev/video - Composite3
Probed: /dev/video1 - Television
Probed: /dev/video1 - Composite1
Probed: /dev/video1 - S-Video
Probed: /dev/video2 - Television
Probed: /dev/video2 - Composite1
Probed: /dev/video2 - S-Video
Probed: /dev/video2 - Composite3
adding: nordvid as a player 1

mysql> select starttime,endtime,title,hostname from recorded where endtime='2003+----------------+----------------+-------------------+----------+
| starttime      | endtime        | title             | hostname |
+----------------+----------------+-------------------+----------+
| 20030315020000 | 20030315023000 | The Real World    | nordvid  |
| 20030315000000 | 20030315023000 | Hendrix           | nordvid  |
| 20030315020000 | 20030315023000 | News One at 10:00 | nordvid  |
+----------------+----------------+-------------------+----------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

nexttv = 1 title: Washington Week
nexttv = 2 title: Crime Strike
nexttv = 3 title: The Real World
Changing from None to RecordingOnly
Changing from None to RecordingOnly
Changing from None to RecordingOnly
strange error flushing buffer ...
audio volume set to '32768'
strange error flushing buffer ...


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