Hi, folks. Can anyone answer Phill's questions 1, 3, and 4? Cuz I want to know too.
Or point us newbies to the right docs? Tony According to Phill Edwards, > I'm in Australia and thinking of going digital. I have 2 BT8x8 > analogue cards now which works well. I was going to replace one of > these with a digital BT8x8 card (something like a VisionPlus which > people have reported as easy to get working and good quality). Before > I do this I have some questions: > > 1) Is it OK to have 1 analogue card + 1 digital card in the same backend? > > 2) Do digital BT8x8 cards chew up CPU? I know the analogue ones do, > but I thought that the digital cards just wrote the incoming MPEG2 > stream straight to disk which would mean very little CPU required. Am > I right or delusional? > > 3) Will playback of MPEG2 require more CPU than playback of my > existing MPEG4 recordings? > > 4) Will there be issues writing digital MPEG2 + analogue MPEG4 > recordings to disk simultaneously? I saw a thread about overloading > the PCI bus or something. > > Anything else I should worry about? > > Thanks, > Phill > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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