[mythtv-users] Getting Started with MythTV

[Ben Bucksch]

Igor Izyumin wrote:

> I definitely don't think you can get a watchable image if you are 
> using real-time Nuppelvideo encoding on an 800MHz machine.  If you set 
> the resolution really low, it will work, but it will look very bad.

FYI, I am using software mpeg4 encoding with 640x480, 2400-3000mbit/s 
and otherwise mostly the standard quality settings, and my Athlon 1200 
is usually at 50% CPU load while recording, spiking to 75%.