[mythtv-users] Most tuners in a single machine

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Mar 2 22:28:20 UTC 2006


On Mar 2, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Alexander Fisher wrote:

> On 3/2/06, James Minihane <j.minihane at minihane.tzo.com> wrote:
>> Ultimately I'll have 3-4 front ends, plus want the ability to  
>> record at
>> the same time.
>> That means at LEAST 6 tuners. Even if I use the PVR-500, that's  
>> still 6
>> PCI slots. The additional input ports for the 2nd encoder on the  
>> PVR-500
>> takes up a PCI slot in the case, even if it doesn't take up a slot  
>> on the
>> board.
>> Has anyone tried a passive backplane case for all of the  
>> additional slots?
>
> Have you considered using USB2 tuners?  I'm sure something like  
> this ...
> http://blogs.snapstream.com/2006/01/18/godzilla-pvr/
> could work equally well with myth.
>
The Plextors work quite well too. Advantages include direct to MPEG-4  
(if that's what you want) but disadvantages include high price and  
klunky external form factor.


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