[mythtv-users] Media Center Demo
Joseph Jamieson
jjamieson at futurefoundations.com
Sat Mar 29 12:00:34 EST 2003
Is the resolution a limit on the hardware, your machine, or the drivers?
-----Original Message-----
From: JC [mailto:johnmythtv at crombe.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 11:50 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Media Center Demo
> From: "Joseph Jamieson" <jjamieson at futurefoundations.com>
> I noticed an option for "hardware MJPEG" in the encoder drop down
menu.
> Do any TV cards out there support this feature? Ideally, this would
> let you do MythTV with a lot less of a powerhouse of a box (and a more
> quiet one too.)
It's for the Matrox G200 and G400 series of video cards. They were
originally in the $300 to $400 range when they were introduced a few
years
ago, but now can be found for under $50. They do hardware MJPEG
encoding
(not decoding) which does eliminate a huge load from the CPU.
I've got the G200 myself and it's working very well at 350x240
(decimation
2,2) but I can't go any higher, and the other codecs (RTJPEG, MPEG4)
don't
work well at all on my box (P3-800). I'm about to buy a new
motherboard/cpu
to boost up my performance but wonder if the G200 is the right card for
the
job or not.
I asked earlier if anyone had a G200/G400 and got higher performance
that
the hardware MJPEG at 2,2 but nobody answered.
Take care,
JC
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