Hauppauge HD PVR -- How Many Could Be Connected To A Single Machine?

[TonyXL]

Very excited to see this arriving soon, and to see GB-PVR support it!

Any idea how many of these you could connect to a single machine?

Thanks,
Tony

[TonyXL]

I think ComSkip only works with MPEG-2...is there a commercial skipper out there that works with AVC?

[wtg]

Erik, of comskip fame, mentions over on the comskip forums he at least will be investigating comskip support for this new format. I think it's great he's stated that much.

The bad news is since decoding these streams is so CPU-intensive, I'm guessing it'll take much longer to run. I'm still hoping for it though.

[mvallevand]

Here's an email of the SageTV forums from Hauppauge indicting running multiple HD PVR's is untested.

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread....tcount=234

I think I also read there that ShowAnalyser com-cutting of of HD material runs a quad core at 75% CPU on all 4 cores so yes it is intense.

Martin

[sub]

I've only got the one, so cant vouch for multiple connected to the one machine.

[whurlston]

If anyone wants to buy more for me, I'll be glad to report how many can be connected simultaneously.

[TonyXL]

Not sure if this would be possible, but parallelprocessing.bat or postprocessing.bat could call a program to transcode the H.264 file to a (scaled-down, perhaps 320x240) mpeg-2 file, which could then be passed into comskip. Even with downscaling, it might be processor intensive, but it would still work (definitely with postprocessing...not sure about parallel).

-Tony (comskip addict: commercial free since '06)