<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:59 PM, "Johnny Russ" <<a href="mailto:jruss@mit.edu">jruss@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Josh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com">jaw1959@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you're recording all digital, then you will most likely not be re-<br>
encoding, and you'd likely need less CPU for a system recording HD<br>
than SD analog because all you'll be doing is writing the data to a<br>
hard drive (commercial flagging aside).<br>
</blockquote></div><br>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.<br>
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</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>mythtv-users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>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.</div></body></html>