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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm at the stage where I am going to buy the
capture card for my Mythtv setup, I have an 800mhz Samuel 2 cpu in a board with
512 of ddr ram (The actual board is a Syntax S635MP). I'm unsure if I'll
be able to get away with just having hardware mpeg2 encoding or if I'll need to
get hardware mpeg2 decoding aswell. I would like to be able to record live
tv and playback at the same time. I'm looking at getting a Hauppauge pvr
250 or 350. Is there some way to run Mythtv in a "benchmark" mode where it
could tell me who well it would expect things to run with hardware/software
encoding/decoding? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even better if anyone out there have a similar
system that could tell me how well it performs?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>