<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Kuphal</b> <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="q">On Jan 21, 2008 12:15 PM, Paul Mason <<a href="mailto:latepaul@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">latepaul@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So, this weekend I rebuilt my Myth box with svn 15504 in order to get multi-rec.<br><br>It's all working very nicely but I was wondering about the setting of "max no. of recordings" on the capture card. This is what turns a single real tuner into a number of "virtual tuners" I guess. It defaults to 2. My system has a single SATA2 disc (16Mb cache, 7200rpm IIRC) and my recordings partition is using xfs. I've got a single Nova-T 500
i.e. 2 physical tuners.<br><br>So I've been thinking about whether I want to increase this value or not. </blockquote>
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<div>Keep in mind also that simultaneous recordings from one card are only available for channels that share a multiplex. At least with my QAM provided lineup from Comcast, this results in 3 or 4 sets of 2 channels. Meaning for me, it would be pointless to increase beyond 2 because I simply don't have more than 2 channels sharing a multiplex.
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<div>Kevin</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Thanks, yeah I am aware of that. I forgot to mention I'm in the UK using Freeview so we're talking SD resolutions here. <br><br>As I just said above I'm mainly just curious, though it will be nice to know what's possible. The main reason for getting multirec was the ability to do back-to-back recordings with some overlap. I've just set up a test that will record 6 programs at once (well for a few minutes anyway - it's 2x 2 back-to-back recordings + a couple of others). I'll let you know what happens.
<br></div><br></div><br>-- <br>Paul Mason