[mythtv-users] overlay mode available?
Andreas Bohnert
abo at online.de
Wed Nov 5 03:05:28 EST 2003
Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>I hate to burst your bubble, but a P-III 350 MHz is not going to be able
>to handle that. You'll be lucky if you can get 320x240. Generally
>speaking, you need at least 1 GHz to handle an analog tuner card, plus
>a little extra (~500 MHz) to handle simultaneous playback. I'd say the
>most cost-effective option for you (rather than getting a new video
>card, CPU & possibly a new mobo) would be to get a PVR-350. It does
>MPEG-2 encoding *and* decoding in hardware, so it hardly uses your CPU
>at all, and the picture quality is terrific (so I hear). You can
>probably get one for about USD$200-250.
>
>
>
yes, you did burst my bubble :)
but that was just in time. I have to think about the pvr 350. Maybe it
will be cheaper around christmas (another bubble??)
anyway, thank you joseph!
andreas
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