<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As for how is mythtv supposed to know that my system can't handle 3 (actually 4), but your can handle > 8, that's straightforward. Have a limit such that # of input + # of output streams <= # of tuners as a default, with it being a backend setup field that can be adjusted by the user as experience of the system improves. </blockquote>
</div><br>It's not straightforward. Aside from comm flagging and transcoding and whatever other user jobs are set up, you can't assume that writing streams uses the same amount of resources as reading streams. You can't even assume that two tuners use the same amount of resources when writing (consider a "dumb" capture card vs a card with an mpeg encoder).<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Steve<br>