[vdr] VDR and MythTV

[Kartsa]

From: "Darren Salt" <linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
>> On average under 3500 kbit/s = 1.5 GB/hour for most Finnish channels, at
>> least on DVB-T, and I doubt cable is any better here.
>
> That's 437.5kB/s.
>
> Let's double that to take account of PCI->memory transfer and processing 
> time
> taking a chunk out of disk I/O time and assume typical maximum IDE 
> bandwidth
> of 30MB/s on PII/PIII boards.
>
> That gives 35 channels.
>
> I'm not saying that this is in any way accurate, though :-)
>
But I'd say close enough. And I use SATA drive which gives a bit more 
throughput that IDE. Too bad I do not have more dvb cards to try this out :) 
And if I had I dont have enough free channels :)

\\Kartsa 



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