[mythtv-users] Getting Started with MythTV

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:59 pm, Igor Izyumin wrote:
> Don't even bother without such a card.  An 800MHz CPU can not encode
> video in real-time, period.  My 700MHz processor has trouble DECODING
> video (in Live TV mode).  It works when the quality is cranked down.

Err, that's really not true at all.  Plenty of people are using slower 
machines than that.

Additionally, you're using mjpeg, which is really quite cpu intensive to 
decode.  MPEG-2 from a pvr-[2/3]50, or the software encoded mpeg4 or rtjpeg 
codecs are much easier to decode.

Isaac