[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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