On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:32:14PM +0100, Kevin Barsby wrote: > Looking at the up and coming features planned, there is live TV Pause > (time shifting)
Yes, eventually :) > Given that my TV card won't have any hardware MPEG en/decoders on board, > what speed system should I be looking at. It might be worthwhile to look into hardware compression, you reduce the requirements (and the noise level) by using a card. > This is quite an important question as I am looking to put together a > system with *no* fans (similar to the hush mini itx pc > http://www.hushtechnologies.net/hushmini.htm). So the fastest PC you can > get in a system with this sort of spec is 1GHz, if this is too slow > I'll reconsider Shuttle XPC PCs again. If you do pure software compression, the speed of your CPU is one factor; for good quality (i.e. full 720x480) you'd need at least 1ghz... but it would also help to have a well supported TV card that doesn't require X like the G400. I've done acceptable compression on much slower machines, but albeit at low resolutions (320x240)... rather than upgrading my machine, I bought a hardware mpeg2 card for about $100 USD on Ebay, and while I haven't recieved it yet, if it works, it'll keep me from having to buy a big loud ghz machine.... Aubin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
