On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Robert Schlabbach wrote: | From: "Thomas Sailer" <sailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:39 +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: | > > If you have a networked server box, you can plug PCI tuner cards | > > into it and forget about Brian's project entirely... ;-) | > | > No, not necessarily. The high bandwidth video data still doesn't | > have to go through the server, | | If a _server_ can't handle the network traffic, then a little network | device sure can't either... But with Gigabit Ethernet, I see no problem | with the traffic... | | > and try fitting more than 2 tuners into a normal | > PC, good luck with all the thermal problems. | | I have 3 tuner cards in my desktop PC with no thermal problems... | just for the record: i got multiple dell servers with up to 7 (seven) cards in my machines (ok, the room is air conditioned). running my rtp/multicast streaming software, streaming up to 20 tv channels per server over the built-in 1000baseTX. works like a charm for months now. 100% rock solid. the only problem i'm experiencing is at a different location, with a somewhat 'strange' dvb signal and with wintv nexus cards: about every two days, the ARM keeps crashing... pm
