I would just like to say that my experience has been that when sampling at low resolution, you want to do everything possible to maintain the native number of lines (i.e. 480 for NTSC). Recording at non-square pixels is a non-issue for Xv-supported playback, but the quality is much better. It also more accurately represents a lack of bandwidth for low quality modes. In other words, from what I've seen, 320x240 looks worse than 160x480. Maybe it was 240x480... I don't remember exactly.Hi, I just completed a project installing and successfully running MythTV on a P2-266 and it worked great.
I am going to make a webpage documenting this install as it was a lot of fun.
Low End MythTV
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3766
Post replies there or send me emails if you want more info. I think that reusing old PCs for PVRs has a great future.
As another benchmark, I was fairly happy with a bttv-based dual Celeron 300->450 FE/BE combo. It would do 352x480 taking 95% of one cpu to record, and about 80% of the other to play back.
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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