[mythtv-users] What's the practical limit on capture cards?

[Billy Macdonald]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Krzysztof Adamski <k at adamski.org> wrote:
>  In my backend I have:
>  pcHDTV5500
>  pcHDTV3000
>  Hauppauge 250
>  Hauppauge 500
>  HDHR
>
>  the CPU is Pentium 4 D 3.0GHz
>

On my backend: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
768 ram.
LVS with 2 PATA & 1 SATA 250G drives.

I have 2 HDHR & 3 PVR250.
I am able to record 4 HD streams and 3 PVR channels at once, as well
as watch one HD show (only have one HD frontend, so never tested more)

I think I'm pushing my backend at this point.  Every now and then
there is a glitch in the recording.  I'm not sure if that's my backend
or a weak feed from the cableco.  But I don't care much.  I've thought
of upgrading the backend, but that would be just to get more
transcoding power.  I currenlty offload transcoding to the frontends
as they are a bit faster.

Good luck.  I don't think you'll have problems with your 6 tuners on a
new system, but I've never used those cards so I can't say for sure.