[mythtv-users] PVR-250 or 350?

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Thu Aug 7 12:08:07 EDT 2003


Isaac Richards said:
> Yes, there's a _large_ drawback to using a hardware mjpeg card for capture
> --
> files are absolutely huge, and decoding takes many times more cpu than
> mpeg2/mpeg4 decoding.  For instance, I have a p3-550 that's quite happy
> playing back full resolution (720x480) mpeg4 files, but can only decode
> quarter res (320x240) mjpeg, and uses almost 100% cpu doing that.

Ahh...thanks.  Didn't catch that difference. ;-)

John



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