[mythtv-users] What hardware do I need to be able to dual record using Comcast cable?

Josh jaw1959 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 02:36:09 UTC 2008


On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:59 PM, "Johnny Russ" <jruss at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Josh <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're recording all digital, then you will most likely not be re-
> encoding, and you'd likely need less CPU for a system recording HD
> than SD analog because all you'll be doing is writing the data to a
> hard drive (commercial flagging aside).
>
> I don't have a P4 or an HD content in mythtv so I can't speak for  
> sure, but it was my empression from other posts on this list that a  
> P4 wouldn't be adequate for HD playback, at least not at higher  
> bitrates or H264.
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

I assumed we were talking about a backend only, which was likely a  
mistake on my part.  If we're talking about a combined system, then  
the P4 would likely be inadequate.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20081015/64590d90/attachment.htm 


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list