[mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000

Ray Lischner linux at tempest-sw.com
Sun Feb 5 04:06:42 UTC 2006


On Saturday 04 February 2006 10:44 am, Yan Seiner wrote:

> Also, what sort of CPU horsepower is needed on the backend?  

Very little. The signal arrives already encrypted. The backend merely
copies the data to the disk (more or less). My backend is a dual
PIII/600, with two HD-3000 cards. It has no difficulty at all.

The frontend, however, needs a lot of CPU power or hardware assist to
decode a high-def show.
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Ray Lischner



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