[mythtv] encoding vs decoding

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 13 16:01:14 EDT 2003


On Monday 13 October 2003 06:39 pm, Will Dormann wrote:
> At 02:29 PM 10/13/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >On Monday 13 October 2003 05:06 pm, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> >> According to the docs, a Celeron 450 takes about 2% CPU to encode a
> >> stream but takes about 80% to decode.  Is that a typo or is that about
> >> right?  
> >
> >Um, sounds like a typo to me.  
> 
> 
> No, I believe that section of the documentation is talking about PVR-250
> hardware.
> 2% CPU sounds just about right to me.

Well, the original poster didn't make clear what kind of capture card he 
has...  Michael, we can't very well help you if you don't provide enough 
information.

-JAC



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