mindfuq at fairfieldi.com wrote > I am going to make a webpage documenting this install > as it was a lot of fun.
I think it's important to note that your capture card has an MPEG-2 chip. So are you using it to capture your content, or are you using your CPU to crunch video into MPEG-4? I'm guessing the ladder, because I would expect you to be capable of capturing at a higher resolution if you used your hardware encoder. Hi, I am using just a plain frame grabber bttv bt878 card. Transcoding to MPEG4 has been almost silly its so slow. It started a transcode of a 30 minute show and 24 hours later it was STILL working on it. I think adding an MPEG2 encoder would definitely increase performance as would an NVidia card but then it wouldn't be practically free anymore. A decent PVR-250 on special dealnews is $100 and an NVidia card is $40. A PVR-350 is an easy $150. Add any of those to practically ANY computer and you'd get decent performance. I am setting up a webpage for the Low End MythTV users I have already found 2 other webpages of really what I would consider Low End MythTV machines. Preferably, I like to focus on machines that are rescued from the trash and are essentially free. I'd place the practical upper limit at 400MHz CPU and anything above that, especially with NVidia and/or ivtv cards is no longer low end because it represents a significant investment (over $100). I think its a shame that a lot of computers now are literally being thrown in the trash when some of those could be reused as PVRs with a little TLC. Maybe if the "LowEnders" gathered up their experience it wouldn't be so daunting to others. I have another medium grade NTSC MythTV box at home I use with 2 PVR-250's, NVidia, LVM and all that for HTPC. I just like experimenting with the old ones and finding good uses for them. (like www.freesco.org) Thanks! Andrew Lynch
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