[mythtv-users] DVB cards and encoding

Kevin Barsby Kevin.Barsby at Sun.COM
Tue Dec 9 05:13:02 EST 2003


> I have also been looking at DVB cards, specifically the Nova-T and I was 
> wondering if the output from this card (into the computer) is MPEG(2?) 
> and if so does that mean that recording from this card requires little 
> CPU power or does the data from this card need encoding in some way?

I looked into this a while back and from what I recall the Nova-T has no 
encoding chipset, so the processor would have to do the work, so I guess 
go by the benchmarks given on the mythtv website...

Cheers
Kev



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