Janne Grunau wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 13:09:33 Ali H.M. Hoseini wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've searched this mailing list, and internet, and found that is >> possible to have 6 dvb cards simultaneously with newer linux kerenls. >> But is it possible to have more than 6 dvb cards? for example 8 dvb >> cards? >> > > Eight adapters should work out of the box. More adapters may work if you > increase the DVB_MAX_ADAPTERS define in > drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c. > > Applications may have their own limit. MythTV for example has also a > limit of 8 DVB adapters per backend. > > >> I've an industrial pc from icp electronics that lets me to install up >> to 13 pci cards. ( It has active backplane). >> > > Please note that more than ten typical DVB-S or DVB-C multiplexes > (~50mbit/s) may saturate a single 32bit/33mhz PCI bus. I hope that they > use more than one PCI bus for 13 slots. > I heard that cards such as skystar 2 have hardware pid filters. Does it mean that this prevent pci bus saturation, by aligning that filters to a one or two pids? > HTH Janne > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
