[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

["Irek Defee" <irek.defee@ondems.com>]

>> Another issue though is how 
>> much stream juice one can squeeze out of the cards at the same
time...

>I don't see why you can't squeeze 6*45Mbps = 270bps over the PCI bus
>and the same amount when you send it to a network card. AFAIK, you
>can transmit 1056Mbps at most over the standard PCI bus (32bit 33MHz).

1056 is theoretical number. Normally you need to read from the card
and write to network adapter, so it is twice less. In practice it will
be around 400Mbs. 

I am streaming about 130 Mb/s from machines with 6 cards but they run
1.3 GHz Celeron processor which is then fully loaded. Tests would need 
to be done on 3 GHz Pentium 4 to see how much can be pumped then.

Irek