Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 21:17 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Frank DiPrete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I like the HDHomeRun card ... >> Just to make sure it's clear, the HDHomeRun isn't a card, it's an >> external box (about the size of a cigar box). It uses a wall-wart >> type power supply transformer. >> >>> If the card had hardware encoding it would be perfect. >> Encoding or decoding? >> >> For digital broadcast -- be it cable or ATSC OTA -- the stream is >> already encoded and compressed as part of the transmission process. >> There's no need for an encoder. >> >> The HDHomeRun is digital only; it doesn't even have an NTSC tuner. >> So, to the best of understanding, the HDHomeRun has no use for a >> hardware encoder. The HD-5500 does have an NTSC tuner; I don't know >> if it has a hardware encoder or not. > > It does not. Its only much more recently that cards with both digital > and analog support also included a hardware encoder for the analog side. > The only one I know for sure actually works under linux is the Hauppauge > WinTV HVR-1600 though. > >> For decoding, I believe you'd still be able to use the "small quiet >> diskless box frontend". The one thing I'm not sure about is: I expect >> not all hardware decoders are created equal. It may be the decoder in >> your front-end box can't handle this new-fangeled high-def stuff. > > Definitely a concern. It takes a heck of a lot more for decoding HDTV > than SDTV. Although not nearly so much as it used to. My frontend is a > mere core duo 1.66 with intel gma950 graphics, and it handles the job > just fine. "Small quiet diskless" often implies a Via processor > though... Which may or may not be enough, depending on the video > chipset, the openchrome driver, and the options mythtv was built with... > >
The frontent is a via 1G. Current mpeg playback takes about 25% of the cpu. myth / xorg is using the openchrome driver. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/