[mythtv-users] MythTV geared towards quality (DVI, SPDIF, etc)

[Shawn]

So, my question is then, when it comes to quality alone, is it better to
capture with MPEG2 from hardware, or some frame grabber with mpeg4 with
hq settings. I can use SPDIF audio then, too.

And, I don't know how Jarod's HDTV output guide translates to using a
PVR350's output (methinks some sort of ivtv driver for X(org|Free86)?)

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:23 -0700, John Sturgeon wrote:
> Shawn,
> 
> You should get a capture card that does the encoding so that the CPU 
> does not do the heavy lifting.  I'm using the HD-2000 (pcHDTV) so I 
> can't speak to other capture cards, but there are plenty of cards that 
> are available that do the encoding.  My CPU is an Athlon 2600+ and I am 
> able to 'capture' (if you will) HDTV (1920x720p, 1920x1080i, etc...) 
> with no problem at all.  In my case, the major bottlenecks would really 
> be the disk drive and bus speeds.