[mythtv-users] CPU for spftware MPEG-4 encoding

[David]

thanks  for being so thoughtful as to top-post - it makes it much easier 
to read the replies when you don't have to scroll down through the stuff 
you just read a few seconds before...

(yes, this is a troll - as is any post that whines about top/bottom 
posting without itself doing any trimming)

Mark Cooke wrote:

>*grrr for top posting*
>
>The PVR250/350 is MPEG2, not MPEG4 as the poster asked.
>
>I transcode from an MPEG2 PVR250 stream at 4mbit/sec, 720x576 to MPEG4
>1000kbit/sec 360x288 on my system, and it seems to do about 20 frames
>per second.
>
>This is a P4-2GHz.
>
>Playback of the resulting file uses around 20-30%
>
>So it is my experience that transcoding is not realtime on my PC, but
>playback is.  Recording from raw frames to MPEG4 might be easier on the
>PC than transcoding.
>
>HTH
>
>Mark
>
>On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:34 +0200, Morten Rønseth wrote:
>  
>
>>But a PVR-350 both encodes & decodes in hardware...
>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>-Morten
>>
>>David Blackwell wrote: 
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>>
>>>Using a pvr-350 I am running livetv with recording on a p2 400 with
>>>256 megs of ram
>>>
>>>David
>>>
>>>On Apr 6, 2005 9:24 AM, Chris Picton <chrisp at tangent.co.za> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Quick question
>>>>
>>>>What are the minimum CPU requirements for live tv MPEG4 encoding.
>>>>
>>>>Or rather, who has the slowest system, running mpeg-4 encoding and
>>>>decoding in software.
>>>>
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>>>>Chris Picton <chrisp at tangent.co.za>
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