[vdr] Re: Motherboard with more than 6 pci slots

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>]

> Maybe you're read my question about cTS2PES errors. Meanwhile I discovered
> that the P4 mainboard with 6 PCI slots (that is full with cards) causes
> the
> problems. Now I'm using an old K7 750 MHz system and have nearly no
> recording errors with two budget cards. In the K7 system the DVB card and
> a
> LAN card is installed not more. In the P4 system no recording was ever
> useful (too much errors in the stream) regardless of CPU ressources.

> I like to know how many DVB cards are successfully in use by other people?
> I think the following data will help other people to build big vdr
> servers.

Hi

Here i use 4 DVB-S cards within in a Asus Mainboard (donīt ask me about the type) with
a 1,3 GHz Athlon.

The only limitation at the moment is the Network - first i had all Harddisk within this
VDR and  i was able to record 9 Streams at the same time to Harddisk.
Now i boot it over the Network and also the Harddrives are in a NFS-Server.
Now iīm able to do 5-6 Recordings and 1 Playback at same time - but this depend
on the Data-Rate of the Broadcaster. Sometimes i have Buffer-Problems.

If i would build such a system at the moment i would suggest to use Nova-Cards.

Fast-Harddrives are a "must" if you want to record on this SERVER.

Here i have 16 120GB Maxtor Drives with Promise Fast-Track controllers (no Raid)
works very well - but donīt ask about the Heat. The Server with the Harddrives have 8 Fanīs.

And soon i will buy a GB-Ethernet for the SERVER and the VDRīs then i hope all 
Network-Problems are gone...

CU

Axel

PS: Yes - the Fileserfer do other things too (Router, Firewall, Squid-Proxy, Samba-Server, DNS,......) No Problems at all.

PSē: Serverhardware:  Pentium III 800Mhz with 512MEM

> - Mainboard with Biosversion
> - RAM
> - CPU
> - Linux kernel
> - DVB driver
> - DVB cards
> - other cards
> - what other think does this system do (e.g. mailserver)



-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to ecartis@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.