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Re: How many BTV Link's can you have?
crouton
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It is my understanding that Beyond TV saves data by default uncompressed, which is pretty large. A lot more than 9 Mbps, more along the lines of 4-5 MBps.
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Not so, TV tuners like the Hauppauge 150 capture mpeg 2, check your file size. At the max DVD compliant bit rate of 9 Mbps (9000 Kbps) one hour of recorded video is about 4 GB.
4 GB/hr = 4000MB/hr = 65 MB/min = 520 Mb/min = 8.7Mb/sec = 8900Kbps
If you run at the BTV default for DVD best file size is about 3 GB/hr or ~7Mbps
A wired 10/100 LAN gives real world transfers of about 70 Mbps so if the hard drive will support the IO 10 clients are possible. A gigabit network is 10 times faster so would not even break a sweat.
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