AW: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

[Illtud Daniel]

Martin,

Thanks for the input. Very interesting.

> My current system has 4 DVB-S cards, no problems at all with 4
> simultaneous recordings. Single P4 2.4Ghz. If you want to keep these
> recordings as references copies I'd advice you not to transcode; after
> all you do lose quality in the process, and the mpeg2 streams you get
> off a DVB card are already in a reasonable format for archiving.

'Reference copies' may be a misleading term to those outside
the broadcasting/archiving world. They're the lowest quality,
intended only for viewing to find material. They're currently
being done on VHS, some on long play - the space saving (and
faster fetching from tape library backend) of mpeg4 will
probably be much more valuable than the loss of quality.

> Without requirement for CI modules I'd probably stick with the terratec
> cards; small, don't run too hot and no problems so far.

'scuse my ignorance - what's a CI module?

> Also, the dvb mpeg2 recordings can contain multiple audio streams

Probably not a problem for us, since I'm not aware of any multiple
streams in anything that we record. I'll ask.

Thank you, that was really informative.

-- 
Illtud Daniel                                 illtud.daniel at llgc.org.uk
Uwch Ddadansoddwr Systemau                       Senior Systems Analyst
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru                  National Library of Wales
Yn siarad drosof fy hun, nid LlGC   -  Speaking personally, not for NLW