[mythtv-users] MPEG4->MPEG4 transcode? (slightly OT)

[Preston Crow]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:02 -0800, Steve Briggs wrote:
> Which has always puzzled me.   Given the advantages of MPEG4 and 
> the fact that a software encoder card + fast CPU costs much less 
> than a hardware encoder card + slow CPU,  why would one pay for the
> hardware encoder?  I can see where it's a stand-alone front end
> and a noisy CPU fan is an issue, but in general?

Hardware cards avoid worrying about other stuff running on the system.
I don't like having to check to see if something is recording before
starting a compilation.

--PC