[mythtv-users] Advice on Proposed setup UK DVB-T

[Andy Burns]

On 14/02/2008 17:49, Adam Retter wrote:

> Hauppage WINTV-NOVAT500 looks pretty good as it has dual
> tuners, but it doesnt have hardware encoding - how much extra CPU
> power do I need for encoding two streams simultaneously?

None! With a digital tuner NO encoding is necessary (or rather it is 
done by the broadcaster) the signal is tuned then demuxed by the 
hardware then a single (or several with multirec) MPEG stream is/are 
extracted from it and saved to disk.