[mythtv-users] Minimal software configuration for MythTV

[Marcos Iuato]

Hi Mike,

My problem is that I have a limited hardware, to be used as pvr and a 
pc, and running just mythtv it is in swap and cpu idle ~5%. So I would 
like to test mythtv without software encoder recording as raw format. I 
know it will use more space at my HD, but I dont need more than 1 hour 
of live tv.

Cheers,
Marcos Iuato


Michael T. Dean escreveu:
> On 04/10/2007 10:23 AM, Marcos Iuato wrote:
>> Is it possible not to use software encoder when recording live tv or 
>> pvr? Becouse if I record with raw format it could save cpu and memory 
>> but I know it would generate bigger files, for me I prefer having bigger 
>> files with less usage of cpu and memory.
>>   
> 
> MPEG-2 gives about 20 to 30 times compression.  MPEG-4 can give even 
> higher compression ratios.  Without encoding, NTSC video would take at 
> least 30GiB/hr and PAL would take more like 40GiB/hr.
> 
> Mike
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