The DVB-S card and all of the cards in Europe are not useful here in the United States as all of the signals are encrypted here. There are many stations that are public in Europe and are public/open sourced. Siemon used to make and distribute the professional quality card in the US but it seems to have become unobtainable in the US. Wonder why........?
The German that did this has recently had his work accepted to become part of a future release of Linux. He is currently rewriting this so that you can add plug ins so as to interface with different hardware, software options/modules.
As to the need for more than one stream, add more PC's. When the S-ATA (Standard I and S-ATA II protocol) hard drives come out with 400-500GB of storage and using a 3Ware 8500 card, serially attached to 12 hard drives, there should be no problem with storage or writing to disk. A PIV processor at about 1.8GB will hand full frame quality NTSC signals (or equivalent). PCI or PCI-X shouldn't be a problem.
Just hook up the different PC's into a Linux Cluster with a Master server and you should have no problem with any of this- recording or playback. You must have one card for recording, and one card for playback, but the playback card doesn't have to be able to record and can be much more economical to obtain.
We are much closer to obtaining quality PVR players and multi channel PVR than you think!!!
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The DVB-S card and all of the cards in Europe are not useful here in the United States as all of the signals are encrypted here. There are many stations that are public in Europe and are public/open sourced. Siemon used to make and distribute the professional quality card in the US but it seems to have become unobtainable in the US. Wonder why........? The German that did this has recently had his work accepted to become part of a future release of Linux. He is currently rewriting this so that you can add plug ins so as to interface with different hardware, software options/modules. As to the need for more than one stream, add more PC's. When the S-ATA (Standard I and S-ATA II protocol) hard drives come out with 400-500GB of storage and using a 3Ware 8500 card, serially attached to 12 hard drives, there should be no problem with storage or writing to disk. A PIV processor at about 1.8GB will hand full frame quality NTSC signals (or equivalent). PCI or PCI-X shouldn't be a problem. Just hook up the different PC's into a Linux Cluster with a Master server and you should have no problem with any of this- recording or playback. You must have one card for recording, and one card for playback, but the playback card doesn't have to be able to record and can be much more economical to obtain. We are much closer to obtaining quality PVR players and multi channel PVR than you think!!!