[mythtv-users] PCI-E Analog Card

[Mark]

Brent Norris wrote:
> My school is talking about building backend that could handle 
> recording around 10 analog cable channels at a time.  When we started 
> talking about it, the PVR500s seemed like our best bet, but our new 
> Dell server only has PCI-E slots.
>
> We started looking at different cards, but a lot of them don't seem to 
> be supported in Linux or maybe only the digital side is.  What we 
> would really like is a dual tuner analog card, but those have started 
> to get scarce so we could work with any card that took analog as long 
> as it works in Linux and MythTV.
>
> Does anyone have any good information on which cards would be the best 
> to look at?
>
> Thanks
> Brent
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Wow, that's gonna be a busy system.  If you truly need 10 analog 
concurrent channels, go PVR-500's on a motherboard with 5 pci slots.
I'm not sure how many concurrent streams you can get over 133 Mbits 
though.  Probably you'll be fine.