[linux-dvb] Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.71

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Emil Naepflein wrote:
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> > Have fun!
> 
> you have done great work!
> 
> I am relatively new to VDR and haven't a system running yet. But I want
> to build one in the near future.
> 
> A few days ago I asked a question regarding the number of DVB cards
> necessary to support time-shifting. I didn't get an answer yet. I have
> read the /dev/video API and thought it should be possible to use only
> one card and a faster CPU to do concurrent reading and writing to the
> card. I am asking this because I probably build an ultra compact system
> for the living room and need to know how many PCI-slots the system has
> to support.

With the Siemens-DVB-Card you need two cards to do this.
This is because of the limited performance of the card itself.
A faster CPU won't help.

Klaus
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