On February 27, 2005 12:35 am, Justin Gombos wrote: > I appreciate all the responses. > > The approach I'm taking is that I have a solution (P2s looking for a > home) and I'm looking for the problem. The goal was to get encoders > and decoders doing all the work, so these systems can be recycled as > PVRs. > > Without giving it much thought, I figured high definition would be > feasible since the encoders and decoders are doing all the work > anyway.. but apparently a couple GHz is needed just to move the data > along. > > So it was starting to look like a P2-333 could be used as just a > server box that captures standard definition TV. But Mark Small > killed that idea when his p2-333 couldn't even capture standard > definition realtime TV with it. > > Anyway, I'm glad I posted here before trying it. You folks saved me > from some frustration. These boards will probably have to be tossed > into the landfill or I'll have to find another job for them.
My problem was that I didn't have a good capture card. I was using a Matrox Marvel which hardware encodes to mjpeg, a codec which seems to take a TON of CPU to decode. The hardware decode never worked for me with mythtv. With a pvr 350 you should have no problems at all. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users