[mythtv-users] Re:Direct software mpeg-1 encoding(live)

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 17:54, Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> Am Di, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Felix Hermann Hoßfeld um 21:42:
> 
> > What is the point for myth-users? Eventually it might be possible to patch 
> > mplayer to "-vo mpeg-1:/dev/video16". This would make the yuv-mode of the 
> > ivtv-driver superflous.
> 
> You can do that already, but that feature is useless for smaller
> machines. Not everyone want's a >2000MHz machine under the TV. FYI,
> reencoding a 640x480 DivX to 640x480 MPEG2 take >90% on my Athlon2000+
> workstation, I don't think my Epia is up to that task. It can decode
> them just fine, so the YUV mode is not at all superfluous. 

Just a note; he said MPEG-1, not MPEG-2.  Probably significantly less CPU 
required, but I don't know if the quality would be too satisfactory...

-JAC