Maybe a better CPU. I'm using 1GHZ and Hauppauge WintV-Radio with V4L drivers. Not ideal for performance, but works great using TV TIME and Myth plays back AVI files like a champ, but watching and recording at the same time is a real resource hog on my aging Dell.
<br><br>thanks<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Lichti</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com">tom@redpepperracing.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Derek Schartung wrote:<br>> I want Mythtv to play Live TV and watch archived video. The menus are<br>> nice and it works great. It is just that the V4L encoding is killing my<br>> CPU. I don't really want to record anything I watch. Is that crazy?
<br>><br><br>No, not crazy, but the other suggestions are good ones.<br><br>Tom<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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