On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:02 -0800, Steve Briggs wrote: > Which has always puzzled me. Given the advantages of MPEG4 and > the fact that a software encoder card + fast CPU costs much less > than a hardware encoder card + slow CPU, why would one pay for the > hardware encoder? I can see where it's a stand-alone front end > and a noisy CPU fan is an issue, but in general?
Hardware cards avoid worrying about other stuff running on the system. I don't like having to check to see if something is recording before starting a compilation. --PC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
