On Sunday 12 December 2004 08:40 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 11 December 2004 09:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: > > currently i find it difficult to buy one, > > as the ads are rosy and the fullscreen picture quality often bad ? > > also how much cpu does realtime encoding to mpeg4 need ? > > does someone use a card doing this in the chip ? > > Isn't this dependent on which video card you have, not the TV card? encoding to mpg 4 can be done in the TV card chip with the more 'high end' (wintvPVR250, 350) cards and uses almost no cpu, other than for (almost continual) disk writes, but it requres a recompile of the kernel to get the modules loaded,,, consider this cards to be 'non-trivial' install and setup... -- linux counter #167806
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