On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:54:14AM -0800, perdurabo wrote: > This is probably a bit misleading to the layman. Most of us in the > SageTV community (and Frey recommends) have a WinTV-PVR card with > hardware MPEG2 encoding and decoding. So yes, it does use very little > CPU power. I leave my SageTV processes up and running while I play > Grand Theft Auto: VC, for example, with little slowdown.
OK, that makes sense then. I just checked again, and nowhere before I get to this "information" does it mention anything about hardware encoding. but I do see that "TV Tuner/MPEG-2 Encoding card or USB device" is listed in the hardware requirements. > Also with these cards, they pipe everything having to do with SageTV > out of the WinTV card's video outs, instead of your normal video card, > so you're perfectly free to use your Windows desktop while SageTV is > running. I'm not sure how they're doing this in the Linux version, but > I suspect they're doing it the same exact way as MythTV does it. why would you go through the video card at all, especially if you are recording MPEG? -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
