On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: > Does this assume the encoding is all done in software? I would guess a > hardware assisted MPEG encoder would require much less. But I have NO idea > about this. I am just curious. > > I know the Tivo doesn't have much horse power. They are case in point for a > design which is just fast enough. They appeared to have spared every > expense. It is an awesome unit. Just saying, I don't think they have a > 600MHz processor ... Could be completely wrong.
AFAIK, the TiVo uses a custom hardware MPEG-2 encoder.