[mythtv-users] DVB-S multirec: how many recordings per card?

[Simon Hobson]

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>Greets, I use 2 Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-S cards in my mythtv-backend.
>
>Currently I use the latest version I get via gentoo portage:
>
>0.23.1_p27077
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>My question: how many recordings per card should I configure?
>
>I currently have "3" for each of the 2 cards, and I am not so sure about
>that ...

Simple answer - "it depends" !

It really comes down to what **your** system can handle, and that 
will be different to every one else's systems. If you can manage to 
schedule that many recordings AND your system can keep up AND it can 
do any other jobs (eg comm flagging) you want it to do AND it can 
play back as many frontend streams as desired ... then it's OK.

If yu find that with several recording going on, and a commflag job 
running, and playback going, that your frontends are not smooth - 
then you've passed the limit for your system. In extreme, you may 
find your recordings corrupt because buffers overflow before they can 
be written to disk.

Having said all that, I don't know what your channel lineup is like, 
but here in the UK it doesn't look like multirec is as useful as it 
is for terrestrial because there are a lot more muxes and fewer 
channels per mux on satellite.

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