[mythtv-users] Re: Preserving HDTV AC3 audio stream whilst transcoding

Marc Nicholas marc at geekythings.com
Thu Nov 18 05:09:15 UTC 2004


A well written driver for pcHDTV cards and careful tuning should yield 
system requirements *way* lower than pcHDTV "recommend".

-marc

Michael S. Keller wrote:

>> For the rest of us, what hardware do you have (plays through xine-hd
>> but not Myth)?
>> How fast of a machine *is* required to view HD through Myth?
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> Because they (pcHDTV) say it is. I have a Celeron 1.4 GHz. I'm still 
> experimenting and have one of my HD-3000 cards in a P5-166 (best I 
> have that actually acknowledges the card's existence). Looks like I'll 
> have to recompile MythTV to keep it from dying as soon as it starts a 
> recording in this slave backend. I've gotten it *so close* (after 
> struggling to find the right combination of settings to make an ATSC 
> slave work with an NTSC-only master backend/frontend combo).
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