[mythtv-users] mp3 listening

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Aug 6 00:24:30 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 05 August 2003 11:12 pm, John Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 Brett_M_Spooner at raytheon.com wrote:
> > How does MythTV react if you are listening to MP3s & then it has to
> > record a program?
> > (that may be a loaded question because if I've been reading correctly you
> > would need a PVR w/ line in or 2 audio cards)
>
> Use hardware encoding.  Then it doesn't need access to your sound card
> when a record event pops.  And since the CPU overhead for recording is so
> low, it doesn't much matter what else you do on the box.

You don't need a hardware encoder card to use a soundcard in full-duplex 
operation.  Please, please, if you're going to respond to questions, at least 
try not to be completely wrong?

Isaac


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