[mythtv] Poll: System Requirements

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:02:42AM -0600, Robert Kulagowski wrote:

> From what I remember reading over on the v4l list, someone figured that
> three encoder cards at high resolution and framerate will max out the PCI
> bus bandwidth, so that's pretty much going to be our theoretical maximum
> unless you have a server with multiple PCI busses.  Could be wrong though;
> I've got 4 capture cards between my various PCs that I could put into one
> box, but don't have nearly the CPU to even start trying to figure out if
> it'll work.

A 33MHz, 32-bit PCI bus has a theoretical maximum limit of 4 * 33 =
132MB/sec.  I have no idea how much of that can be practically utilized for
video capture, but three video streams would fit with plenty of room to
spare.

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 - mdz