[mythtv-users] Possibly a "dumb" question

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/5/2010 15:15, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> One i5 core and 320 MB is all I need for MPEG-2 encoding, two cores
> and 600MB if I want scaling and OSD. Maybe not trivial, but not
> exactly putting a man-on-the-moon. MPEG-2 Encoding is more processor
> intensive than decoding. But, modern processors are amazingly fast.
>    

I admit the last time I tried to encode mpeg2 was back on a 1.8 P4, but 
a high quality DVD encode at 5mbps ran at around 10fps.  I figured 
higher bitrates and resolutions would more than make up for the increase 
in CPU performance since then.