Excerpts (reformatted) from Matthieu Weber's mail of 14 Jan 2004 (EST): > My Athlon XP 2200+ uses 50% CPU when recording from TV using mencoder, > lavcodec with B frames and vhq enabled in 512x384 and VBR MP3 audio. It > uses 20% CPU with default Freevo encoding options, in the same format.
How much of a difference is it going to make to get a, say, WinTV-PVR-250 instead of the WinTV-Radio? (I assume that the difference between these products just the hardware MPEG encoding, but I'm not certain.) > Be careful, HDD can be noisy (Barracudas are very silent, though), but > my DVD drive (not burner) is a pain in the ass from the point of view > of noise. I've heard that recent DVD (and maybe CD) drives cannot be > slowed down (using setcd -x or hdparm -E) as I intended to do. I'm > thus looking for another DVD drive. Hm, good point. Does anyone have recommendations for cheap quiet DVD burners? They don't have to be fancy or fast. Thanks, -- William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- 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
