Magma cases, while having their own PCI bridge, still route through a single slot. Which means, as long as you're not pushing the 133meg/second PCI limit - you will be fine. A typical 40mbit full transponder is ~5meg/second, so even with 4 cards tuning there shouldn't be a problem. Note, this is only for DVB cards, when you're dealing with analog capture (non-mpeg) boards sending uncompressed video, PCI bandwidth gets used up real quick. -t On 3/8/07, CityK <CityK@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Buechler wrote: > I suppose nobody has a comment or suggestion on this.. I guess I'm on > my own. > > - Mark. > > On 3/6/07, *Mark Buechler* < mark.buechler@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:mark.buechler@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > I'm looking to purchase a PCI bus extender by Magma to use with my > Nexus-S, SkayStar2 and Twinhan cards. Before I spend the money, > however, I wanted to cover my bases and make sure I'm not going to > run into any latency or timing issues with slots in the extender. > Has anyone has success using one of these with any DVB cards under > Linux? > > Thanks in advance, Mark. > - Probably not a lot of people with first hand experience with such a setup. Second, the other problem is that the typical end user doesn't hang around here -- users tend to ask a question to a problem that they have and then, once they receive an answer, are never to be heard from again on the list - there are few developers here, and their time is tight ... so giving one days allowance is not necessarily indicative that you are on your own.....sometimes you have to be patient In any regard, I don't know if you would run into similar problems with an extender, but it might be worthwhile to browse through these threads dealing with a problem related to using a pci riser: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-February/016027.html which stems from this thread: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-February/015936.html If that strikes you as a possibility, then consider searching (google works well) the achieves for other incidences with extenders or risers. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
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