well, I thought I had kinda answered three in a round-about kind of way :P I don't know how much MPEG4 uses up, but I told you how much MPEG2 costs :D
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:11:59 -0800, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
