[mythtv-users] how do I setup MultRec for 0.21?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/12/2008 10:38 PM, Peter Schachte wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
>   
>> Setting the number of virtual tuner >1 for a capture card enables
>> multirec and governs how many parallel recordings can be made from a
>> capture card, assuming the channels to be recorded from are broadcast
>> on the same multiplex.
> Not to hijack the thread, but the original question seems to have been
> answered now, and I haven't seen this question asked....
>
> Is there any advantage to keeping the number of virtual tuners low?  Why not
> just set it to 10 for each card?
>
> Here in Oz, we have at most 2 useful channels on a multiplex, but we badly
> need to use start early and end late, making back-to-back recordings overlap.
>  So I'd like to configure 4 virtual tuners on each of my 3 DVB cards.  Is
> that going to overtax something?  I've got 1G of memory and an AMD64 3000+
> (single core) CPU in my combined BE/FE box.
>   

Someone hasn't been keeping up with the reading of posts...  From 
earlier today:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/322581#322581

Mike