----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- From: Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> mat holton wrote: > >> Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, > >> but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means. > > Of course, you can do real-time DIVX encoding with mencoder but there is > a noticeable loss of quality. Higher quality conversion requires a > two-pass approach which is slow even on powerful machine. > > >If you need > >> to store many recordings then either buy a big harddisk or use a machine that > >> is fast enough to recode MPEG2 to MPEG4. On my machine (Via EPIA, 1GHz), > >> recoding proceeds with 7fps. I thus bought a big harddisk. > >> > >> Richard. > >> > >> > > So, you reckon that a bigger hard-disk is the wiser choice than a > > hardware-encoding capable TV-card? > > Hhhh, interesting. > > Don't think that is what Richard was saying, uncompressed streams are > mega huge and the rate is so high that you need a mega fast PCI card. > Even digital video (DV) cameras compress the data at about 5:1. MPEG-2 > streams are still big, 2GB for 30 minutes recording. DIVX/XVID are much > smaller 250MB or less for 30 minutes. > Yes, I have a PVR-250 which creates an MPEG-2 stream. You should buy the card that offers the best compression ratio. Are there any cards that do real-time MPEG-4/DIVX/XVID ? Richard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
