[mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV and HDTV

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:44 pm, Jason Schloer wrote:
> I may be wrong on this, but for capture you shouldn't need too powerful
> a machine. Since ATSC signals are already MPEG2 compressed to at most
> 19.2 mbps there's not a lot to do other than write the stream to disk.
> So throughput will be the bigger issue for multiple hdtv cards. Where
> you will need more horsepower is on the machines displaying the stream.
> And once Myth is optimized for xvmc, even a 1.2 Ghz machine should be
> enough. Anyway, I gues my point is that dual cpu Athlon-64  may be a bit
> of overkill, especially if the "normal" cards you're considering are
> hardware encoders. I'd love to hear other peoples take on this though,
> especially Brandon.

The xvmc stuff in CVS (and the last release) works fine.  Of course, it uses 
_more_ cpu than software decoding on my gf4.

Isaac