On Tuesday 11 January 2005 06:24, Adam Felson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:26 +0100, Maarten wrote: > > On Monday 10 January 2005 21:27, Tim Smoot wrote: > > > Hey all,
> > I use bt878 cards, they'll work fine... ...IF your CPU has the power. > > As it is, I _seriously_ doubt that an Eden 533 can handle it, not even > > when just using rtjpeg... So no luck there. > > I never did get two bt878 cards to work without hiccups. I upped the > CPU to an athlon 3000 (333mhz fsb) in the hope of running three dumb > cards, but couldn't even handle two. Hm. That's a shame. Here I have a perfectly working two-card bttv setup. System specs: Athlon XP 2600, FSB overclocked from 200 to 233, 256 MB Ram. Mythtv specs: Recording directlyin mpeg4, rez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kbps. No recording filters, only deint on playback. This system has been recording two channels simultaneously since a couple of months. I _very_ rarely see or hear hiccups, and if I do it's often my frontend that can't really cope. But it needed a lot of tweaking and testing initially. No, an Athlon 3000 should have coped fine. Maybe you went overboard and recorded at full PAL resolution, or something ? Or your signal strength is / was below par (I had to buy an antenna amplifier myself). > Pentium4's with their amazing FSB speed might do better. Don't believe the hype. Pay more for less ? Maarten _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
