On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:48:59 Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) > > <g...@freephile.com> wrote: > > I was thinking of getting the Dell Studio Hybrid ... or the System76 > > Koala Mini ... > > Be warned that a lot of those itty bitty boxes don't have the > graphics horsepower to decode high-def on the fly and throw it up on > to the screen. Or so I'm told.
The Dell Studio Hybrid does (I have one, watching HDTV on it now). Don't know about the other. > > ... Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1800 ... > > Support for that particular card seems to be very new. I''d look > for people reporting in-depth hands-on experience with it before > buying it. (Yes, I saw that you already bought it. :) ) I have an HVR-1800 also, it works just fine (tested w/2.6.27 and 2.6.29). > My understanding is that the storage backend doesn't need a lot of > CPU or RAM -- just hard disk, and maybe gig Ethernet if you want > multiple high-def streams at once. Yup. Although its nice to have some cpu for commercial flagging and transcoding. > If the storage backend is also doing capture, you're still okay as > long as the capture device has a supported hardware encoder. Remember: for (non-encrypted) hdtv and digital standard-def stuff, no hardware encoder needed, you're just dumping the mpeg2 transport stream (or individual program stream if you have pid filtering enabled) to disk. -- Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
