RE: New Xtreme X38HD Multimedia Player

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just remember not to bid more than the price you can buy them
> for new ,from Aria (+postage). I've lost count of the number
> of times I've seen things go for more than retail value on eBay :)

Auction fever :)

>
> On the GBPVR front , I had a play with the "TS-Mux" setting
> last night and it appears to work very well. I was
> successfully recording 3 programs at the same time with only
> 2 tuners. The files its saves are Transport Streams rather
> than Mpeg but XBMC plays them fine. The only slight issue was
> that one of the programs ("Shaun of Dead") didn't have any
> sound, until I figured out that if I went into XBMC audio
> setting it had 2 audio streams, when I switched to audio
> stream 2 it worked fine.
>
> So I guess with 3 dual tuner cards (i.e. 6 tuners) and TS-Mux
> you could record every channel simultaneously without any conflicts !

I have this kind of setup in MythTV, I have 2 dual tuner cards. This allows
me to record whatever I want off 4 mux's

The good bit about mythtv is that it is integrated, so you just record
whatever you want and it works out which mux each channel is on and saves
each program as a separate mpeg as usual.

The most I have recorded is 8 programs at the same time, and that was using
about 15% cpu and 10% ram on my dualcore, 2gig ram server.

Cheers, Des.



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