[mythtv-users] RE: How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?
Andrew Lynch
lynchaj at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 5 16:06:12 UTC 2005
mindfuq at fairfieldi wrote
[snip]
> I think adding an MPEG2 encoder would definitely
> increase performance as would an NVidia card but then
> it wouldn't be practically free anymore. A decent
> PVR-250 on special dealnews is $100 and an NVidia card
> is $40. A PVR-350 is an easy $150. Add any of those
> to practically ANY computer and you'd get decent
> performance.
Your article stated that you are using a ATI TV Wonder VE PCI tuner,
which has an mpeg2 chip onboard, if I understood the specs correctly.
Unless I'm missing something, you have an MPEG2 encoder already.
Mindfuq;
Dude, don't I wish! No, I am pretty much certain that the ATI TV Wonder VE
PCI tuner is bt878 uses bttv modules and is generally not a very good tuner.
It is also a PITA to configure right because for some reason the kernel/bttv
wants to force it to tuner=19 rather than the normal tuner=2. I have long
since upgraded to dual PVR-250's that do have MPEG2 encoder chips. They are
much nicer.
Hey, but if I am wrong, feel free to show me what I've missed! I'd LOVE
another card with MPEG2 encoding!
Thanks!
Andrew Lynch
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