On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With the powerful systems around in this day & age, the gain of using > hardware PID filters is hardly noticeable. > > Then again, you like to tweak things to the ultimate flexibility, and > this is a good case for tweaking. While that's generally true, with limited resources my time might be better spent finishing the work getting xc5000 tuning time down from 3200ms to 300. :-) > While a system with a single usb2 stick will not be taxed at all by > software PID filtering, there might be a slight performance > enhancement in a system with 7 or 8 usb2 sticks using hardware PID > filters rather than software. > > On the other hand, a device with hardware PID filters can be used on a > USB1.1 port, which would normally not provide enough bandwidth for > full transport using software filtering. > > So yes, there is a gain in using hardware PID filters, but 90% of the > users would never notice the difference. This is entirely consistent with what I thought. Figured there was no harm in soliciting opinions of others though. Cheers, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
