On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 6:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've about decided to purchase an Air2PC receiver but I'd like an > opinion > > about host requirements. The machine I'm using is several years old, a > dual > > 1GHz PIII with 1.5Gb of ram and 1.25Tb magnetic storage. I have a > LML33 > > and the machine is barely fast enough to support capture at full > > resolution. In your opinion would it support the Air2PC? > > The LML33 is a hardware MJPEG capture card, right? Depsite doing some
Yes > encoding in hardware, they take a surprising amount of processing from > the host computer, especially if your capture parameters are not The LML33 uses almost no cpu time. The bottleneck is disk access. > optimal. The CPU requirements for capturing with an Air2PC card, OTOH, > are practically zero, since the stream is already encoded as MPEG2. > However, if you receive any HD channels you will not be able to play > them back on that machine without hardware assistance (like an MPEG2 > decoder, or at least a video card that does XvMC). What would you recomend? Richard Ray > > -JAC > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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