Hi, Actually I'll throw in some useful facts. I did have a dual PIII-550 system with 2gigs of ram running mythtv with a software encoder card. I found from a system perspective that I could get good live tv off the following specs:
MPEG4 encoding bitrate 4000 (scaled) Capture at: 320x240 (?don't remember these settings) mpg audio encoding, quality 7 (no features turned on) If my system wasn't loaded then I could do live TV/pause/etc. The OSD was a little slow to pop up. Screen wise, I would see Mpeg4 artifacts. Now, please bear in mind that this system was also my server (file, web, mysql, and development box). By Nicing -19 my mythbackend and making sure i didn't load up too many processes things were okay. However, if I tried to do a compile or rip more then 1 DVD at a time (all at nice +19) then the system would stutter all over the place. I also noticed that I could run RTJPEG with out much cpu loading on this machine... but ran into soo many IO bound issues that it effectively strangled the machine.... so I'd do the Mpeg4, just turn down the capture size significantly and you should be okay. I'm now running an MCE150 card in another machine doing video capture. The quality is worlds better then the software encoding card in an XP2400 box...file sizes are much larger, but over all its a better experience. -Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
