[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Jul 24 17:13:16 UTC 2007


On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote:
> What about it being the "backend" -- I'm looking at the newer MBOs  
> and seeing only 2 PCI slots and that isn't anywhere near enough if  
> one wants to handle 10+ channels (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FNN, SciFi,  
> AMC, HIS, DIS, Animal Planet).  I know one can't handle them all at  
> the same time but say one wanted to handle 3-5 shows in the same  
> time slot if one had the input cards doing the heavy lifting.

Just as an aside, I think you might be overestimating how many input  
cards you'll need.  The cable networks, in particular, rerun their  
shows like crazy, often multiple times a day.  I have two cards and I  
rarely have conflicts the MythTV scheduler can't resolve by moving  
things around.



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