[mythtv-users] 4 Tuners / USB Hub / Bandwidth

[Owen Townend]

2009/8/2 Andrew Herron <totallymaxed at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> We've done much the same. We use a stock (ie small/cheap powered usb 2.0
> hub) and have tested this config with both the DVB-T dual tuner Kworld
> KW-399U and the DVBWorld HD-2104 DVB-S/S2 tuner. We successfully used 3 x
> KW-399U's in one series of tests and 3 x HD-2104's in another. We had all
> tuners recording/delivering 3 streams each using multirec . We saw no usb
> 2.0 throughput issues in our tests at all. This needs more investigation and
> may be affected seriously by the mix of hardware you test on of course.
>
> It does look a viable route however.

Is the 399U stable while using both tuners as yet?
Last time I tried one it was incredibly unstable unless the second
tuner was disabled.

cheers,
Owen.