mat holton wrote: >> Also keep in mind that MPEG2 streams are smaller than uncompressed streams, >> but they don't match the compression ratio of DIVX by any means.
Of course, you can do real-time DIVX encoding with mencoder but there is a noticeable loss of quality. Higher quality conversion requires a two-pass approach which is slow even on powerful machine. >If you need >> to store many recordings then either buy a big harddisk or use a machine that >> is fast enough to recode MPEG2 to MPEG4. On my machine (Via EPIA, 1GHz), >> recoding proceeds with 7fps. I thus bought a big harddisk. >> >> Richard. >> >> > So, you reckon that a bigger hard-disk is the wiser choice than a > hardware-encoding capable TV-card? > Hhhh, interesting. Don't think that is what Richard was saying, uncompressed streams are mega huge and the rate is so high that you need a mega fast PCI card. Even digital video (DV) cameras compress the data at about 5:1. MPEG-2 streams are still big, 2GB for 30 minutes recording. DIVX/XVID are much smaller 250MB or less for 30 minutes. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
