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<blockquote data-quote="funkstar" data-source="post: 574888" data-attributes="member: 14311">In theory, the device limit of a USB controller is 127 devices, not including hubs and repeaters. If multiple ports share the same controller the number of devices is combined between the two.As for how many you can practicaly have, well I'm not sure. DVB-T is great, as you have seen it required very little processor overhead for recording as all MediaPortal is doing is taking the video and audio streams from the MUX and dumping it to disk. No video or audio processing is done at this point. The data stored on disk is exactly the data sent by the broadcaster.I would have said that the USB controller and the drivers would be the limiting factor. USB drivers have a tendancy to be pretty terrible (not all the time, but often enough). While a bunch of tuners may work just fine, you could easily mess things up by adding another device that doesn't like anythign else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="funkstar, post: 574888, member: 14311"] In theory, the device limit of a USB [i]controller[/i] is 127 devices, not including hubs and repeaters. If multiple ports share the same controller the number of devices is combined between the two. As for how many you can practicaly have, well I'm not sure. DVB-T is great, as you have seen it required very little processor overhead for recording as all MediaPortal is doing is taking the video and audio streams from the MUX and dumping it to disk. No video or audio processing is done at this point. The data stored on disk is exactly the data sent by the broadcaster. I would have said that the USB controller and the drivers would be the limiting factor. USB drivers have a tendancy to be pretty terrible (not all the time, but often enough). While a bunch of tuners may work just fine, you could easily mess things up by adding another device that doesn't like anythign else. [/QUOTE]

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