[mythtv-users] Do DVB card "encode"?
Weston, Toby
toby.weston at Misys.com
Thu Dec 1 04:18:42 EST 2005
ffrr wrote:
> Weston, Toby wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Might be a silly question, but my PVR-250 had a hardware encoder (or
>> is it decoder!?) which was great, I'm wondering if DVB cards
>> have/need the same thing?
>>
>
> No.
>
>
>> I kind of thought that because the signal is digital that it doesn't
>> need to encode it so no hardware encoder was needed?
>>
>
> That's right.
>
>> Having installed a
>> couple of Nova-T's though, the system is really slow making me wonder
>> if the CPU is forced to do allot more work than when I had the
>> PVR-250...
>>
>>
>
> A DVB card does NOT put much load on the cpu. The digital stream is
> just dumped in the recording file.
>
Excellent thanks :)
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