--- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:11:28AM +0930, antec > wrote: > > thanks, John also had this to point out. I can now > understand why the > > system paused and the overheads involved. > > In general, I would *HIGHLY* recommend getting a > capture card with > hardware MPEG-2 encoding, such as the PVR-250. Not > only are your CPU > loads *far* lower, but in my experience, the end > result is higher > quality as well. > > They're so cheap it's hard to argue against it. > > -- John
So true, I picked up my hauppauge freestyle (basically a 250) for $34 off ebay last year. It worked great with my athlon 1200 underclocked to 900. Howard _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
