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Consider a setup with a dvb-s2 pci card with a channel being decoded directly on screen and not saved. Is the mpeg4 data coming off the dvb-s2 stream buffered over to the hard disk before its decoded...or is it buffered only in memory? What is the maximum single channel data rate that you guys managed to decode? I am asking because hard disks (non ssd ones) can be pretty become a bandwidth bottleneck for high bandwidth video streams. I got my hands on a blue ray 40mbps stream sample and tried to view it on my pc and I was only able to see only the first couple of frames off the entire sample. I am asking because I am planning to spend some money in building an dvb-s2 htpc and at the end of it I do not want to discover that I may have some hard disk bw bottlneck issue. Any related feedback would be appreciated. br Orangotan