[mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card

[Paul Barker]

Hi All

Well my myth setup has been working great for over a year now so I thought
it's about time I broke it! I'd like to add a second capture card to the
system. Currently here's what I have:

Athlon XP 2000
512Mb Ram
1 X 160Gb Seagate Baracuda 7200RPM 2Mb cache dedicated capture / buffer
device.
Fedora 3 (going to 4 when 5 releases)
PVR-250 capturing over SVID from SKY reciever

I'd like to add a DVB-T card to the above, so I need advice on a few items:

1) Card recommendations. Something that will work well with the 250 and is
reliable.
2) Disk bandwith. Can I get away with one drive if I wanted to record 2
programs and watch a recorded show at the same time ? (This would be
pretty unusual but ...)
3) Good general resources for DVB under Linux since I know pretty much
nothing about DVB.

I have another spare Baracuda so I could stripe the capture device but I'm
trying to have the minimum number of drives in the server to keep heat /
power consumption down.

Cheers
Paul