Justin T Wetherell wrote: > I know that DXR3 cards are natively built to play mpeg1/2, I was > wondering if I should record with mpeg1video "vcd" codec or use the > mpeg4 "divx" codec when recording.
This mostly depends on how much disk you have, whether you simply watch once then delete, and how much grunt you have available. Personally, I capture MPEG-2 (I don't have to encode it as I'm using DVB-T), and only transcode that to MPEG-4 if I plan to keep the recording. The equivalent if you're capturing analogue TV would be to do your initial capture as high-bitrate MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, and to then transcode anything you decide to keep later on. Not sure how the results would look though. > Does the DXR3 do more work playing > back a vcd than a divx? Either way the DXR3 itself does the same amount of work, because when you play MPEG-4 (or any other codec that the DXR3 doesn't know how to handle) MPlayer decodes that and then re-encodes in MPEG-1 before passing it on to the card. So while the DXR3 does the same amount of work, your CPU has to do somewhat more to play MPEG-4. Matt -- "They've won the client but no one likes using their servers. Because they're shit." -- Jeremy Allison on Microsoft in El Reg ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users