[mythtv-users] Do DVB card "encode"?

[Weston, Toby]

ffrr wrote:
> Weston, Toby wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Might be a silly question, but my PVR-250 had a hardware encoder (or
>> is it decoder!?) which was great, I'm wondering if DVB cards
>> have/need the same thing? 
>> 
> 
> No.
> 
> 
>> I kind of thought that because the signal is digital that it doesn't
>> need to encode it so no hardware encoder was needed?
>> 
> 
> That's right.
> 
>> Having installed a
>> couple of Nova-T's though, the system is really slow making me wonder
>> if the CPU is forced to do allot more work than when I had the
>> PVR-250... 
>> 
>> 
> 
> A DVB card does NOT put much load on the cpu.  The digital stream is
> just dumped in the recording file. 
> 

Excellent thanks :)