[mythtv-users] Question about BT8x8 digital TV cards

[Tony Godshall]

Hi, folks.

Can anyone answer Phill's questions 1, 3, and 4?  Cuz I want
to know too.

Or point us newbies to the right docs?  

Tony

According to Phill Edwards,
> I'm in Australia and thinking of going digital. I have 2 BT8x8
> analogue cards now which works well. I was going to replace one of
> these with a digital  BT8x8 card (something like a VisionPlus which
> people have reported as easy to get working and good quality). Before
> I do this I have some questions:
> 
> 1) Is it OK to have 1 analogue card + 1 digital card in the same backend? 
> 
> 2) Do digital BT8x8 cards chew up CPU? I know the analogue ones do,
> but I thought that the digital cards just wrote the incoming MPEG2
> stream straight to disk which would mean very little CPU required. Am
> I right or delusional?
> 
> 3) Will playback of MPEG2 require more CPU than playback of my
> existing MPEG4 recordings?
> 
> 4) Will there be issues writing digital MPEG2 + analogue MPEG4
> recordings to disk simultaneously? I saw a thread about overloading
> the PCI bus or something.
> 
> Anything else I should worry about?
> 
> Thanks,
> Phill
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