Re: bttv driver questions

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:58 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Consistently meeting the real-time communications needs of the 8 BT878's
> and the disks on the PCI bus could well be impossible with (the very
> common) round robin arbiters.

Trying to capture 8 full resolution streams on one PCI bus is probably
impossible, but with a NIC or HD controller on the same bus, forget it.

You'd need to get a chipset with multiple busses and put the capture card
on its own bus.

Or get something like viewcast's multi-bttv cards that use a PCI to PCI-E
bridge.

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