Live TV doesn't record to the hard drive. Live TV doesn't involve compression or decompression. Live TV only requires that one frame be read while another frame is being displayed.
Mpeg4 software compression algorithm alone is too much for the little epia. RTJPEG at low resolution might work, but it would be pushing it. Replace that with a hardware encoder and all the epia has to do is read from the card, save to the hard drive, run another process to read the same or different data from the hard drive, and run yet another process to display. On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 03:01 +0100, �rn Einar Hansen wrote: > �ann F�studagur 18 mars 2005 20:42 skrifa�i Ivor Hewitt: > > > > Mythtv operates by encoding and then decoding the video stream to provide > > you with live tv pausing. > > > > This is why you can watch TV with xawtv and not with mythtv. > > > I'd find that hard to believe ... we're talking about a 1GHz machine, and I > was able to watch a movie on my old AMD-K6 400 fer kriss sakes. My 1.4GHz > Ahtlon XP machine was capable of letting me watch live TV with MythTV, and do > a whole lot of other stuff at the same time, without ever going anywhere near > top use. But even then, a hardware "encoder" should certainly tip the > balance? > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
