[mythtv-users] dumb hdtv questions

[Nathan Poznick]

Thus spake Gregg F:
> Can anyone tell me why it takes so much processing power to play hdtv
> contenet if it is broadcasted and stored as mpeg2.  Or point me to an
> article?   Does anyone have a pcHDTV working with myth or just
> external programs?

It is precicely because it is broadcast and stored as MPEG2.  MPEG2 is
CPU-intensive to decode.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1

The pcHDTV cards have been working with MythTV for some time.

-- 
Nathan Poznick <kraken at wang-fu.org>

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. - Horace Greeley

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