<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">on my test box (my desktop) when i'm watching live tv on the box the<br>_least_ cpu usage I get is 80%
<br><br>it is an athlon xp 2500+,1gb of ram, kworld vstream xpert (vs-tv878rf),<br>and a radeon 9600 SE<br><br>top tells me the vast majority of the cpu usage is in backend.<br><br>I'm encoding live tv to mpeg4 at 2200bps, with two of the tree options
<br>recommended for interlaced video enabled - mp3 at quality 6 and 32000bps</blockquote><div><br>
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Encoding to MPEG4 is CPU-intensive, so I do not think there is anything wrong.<br>
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Niels Dybdahl<br>
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