I demand that Niko Mikkila may or may not have written...
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:35:13 +0000 Darren Salt linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote:
I demand that Kartsa may or may not have written... [snip]
Almost every day I record three channels at the same time.
That means little without bandwidth stats (or disk space used per hour) for those channels.
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 :-)