[mythtv-users] capture card

Jim Beckett beckett.jim at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 22:53:02 UTC 2010


Tom Furie wrote:
> What I don't understand with multirec is why the number of simultaneous
> recordings is limited. Surely, if you're tuned to one mux, you should be
> able to record everything that is coming across on that frequency? In
> theory that would mean that here in the UK, you could record everyhing
> on Freeview with six physical tuners. I'm not sure how many more would
> be needed for Freesat.
I am out of my area of expertise here, but I suspect that you would be 
limited by bus, or disk, IO capability, since each stream would be 
recording to disk as different files.

Or, perhaps the card's ability to handle multiple streams?


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