Re: [H] Recommendation on computer build

[Greg Sevart]

I guess you haven't looked at high end cards lately as my high def capture 
card [MyHD MDP-120] requires very little cpu usage since it does all the 
processing but it captures in streaming mpeg so one has to convert it to 
mpeg2 with a freeware app hdtvtompeg2.exe and the null packets should be 
stripped with another freeware app NullPacketStripper & these would take a 
while on a slow machine. The Fusion3 or 5 also take very little CPU while 
capturing but it's the post processing that takes up the CPU, memory, & 
time.


Have you used these? Having been told they're the best, I am about to pull 
the trigger on a MDP-130. If the Fusion5 is a decent card, though, I could 
save some cash by doing that instead. Host capacity isn't a concern--A64 X2 
4800+ with 2GB and gobs of storage should be plenty. The big thing that I 
want is QAM decoding....

Greg