[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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