[mythtv-users] How usable is the G400-tv

Matthew Schumacher schu at schu.net
Mon Apr 21 18:02:52 UTC 2003



Isaac Richards wrote:
> 
> There's been support for hardware mjpeg cards (like the g400-tv) for quite 
> awhile now.  They're not really worth it, in my opinion.  The created files 
> are _huge_, and it takes a lot more cpu to decode than other formats (my 
> p3-550 can barely decode 320x240 mjpeg files in real time, but it happily 
> plays back 640x480 mpeg4-based .nuv files), which quite completely offsets 
> the cpu saved by the hardware encoding.
> 
> Isaac
> 

This is very interesting.  Thanks for your reply.  Does this mean that 
the PVR-250 card is the same way?  If so I'll just pick up a win-tv or 
something and do the crunching in the processor.  Athlons are so cheap 
right now anyway.

Thanks,

schu



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