Thanks for the info. I was a bit worried about bandwidth but I figured not many cards are going to be streaming the full transport - certainly not all at once, anyway, so I think I'm safe there. The only analog capture cards I own are mpeg ones so that should be good.
Thanks, Mark. On 3/7/07, timecop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
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