Hmmmm the silence is deafening. Looks like "Chuck" (I have heard of chuck steak, wot kind of name is chuck?) is a complete dolt ;-) , he even used a dummy mail address typical coward that he is.
> lmao. > > Wow impressive hardware. What distro were you using? so that I won't use it. > When you installed linux did you select the smp kernel option? What > window manager did you use? What ripping software were you using to > rip DVDs? > > Because when I rip dvds using the myth interface. I don't go and watch > a show in myth. > > Funny you are comparing 2 different hardware. Why haven't you got MCE > running on the dual PIII? I have Myth running on XP2800 with 512 meg > of ram and a fusion HDTV card, with Audigy2 card. I don't have any > problems with viewing TV, or dripping my dvds or music. > > Your problem is laughable you are comparing apples and oranges. If we > were to value your point of view compare apples with apples. > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
