[mythtv-users] Question about BT8x8 digital TV cards

[Matthew Phillips]

On 19/03/2005, at 5:52 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
> 2) Do digital BT8x8 cards chew up CPU? I know the analogue ones do,
> but I thought that the digital cards just wrote the incoming MPEG2
> stream straight to disk which would mean very little CPU required. Am
> I right or delusional?

mythbackend uses about 6% CPU on my 1GHz system while recording SD 
using a VisionPlus card, so CPU use won't be a problem.

Don't know about the rest.

Cheers,

Matthew.