On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 22:33, Torsten Schenkel wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 17.03.2005, 20:13 +0000 schrieb Ivor Hewitt: > > On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 19:16, Torsten Schenkel wrote: > > > I don't know for sure, but I seriously doubt the Epia has the muscle > > > for on the fly compression decompression and i/o bandwidth for twice > > > full size PAL video (to and fro the processor) and twice compressed > > > video (to and from HD) > > > > Many people are successfully using EPIA based myth boxes... and if you're > > using the embedded mpeg decoder they're not even stretched. > > I know, me being among the first ones :-) > > But as you said: H/W mpeg decoder, which goes with a h/w mpeg encoder as > the pvr250 or combined en-/decoder as the pvr350. S/W mpeg2 encoding is > out of the question on the EPIA, divx encoding might just be ok, but > doing both and the bandwidth for the 2 uncompressed and the 2 compressed > streams will kill of the small thing i guess. > The bandwidth won't kill it.... but you're correct there's absolutely no way you're going to do live mpeg2 compression on an epia. I doubt you'd be able to do mpeg4 either.
And scrolling back I see the original question is about using an analogue capture card in an EPIA..... so quite right... it's not going to work. Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it
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