On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:56 -0700, Blake wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:42:10 -0700, Brandon Beattie > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the SLC Utah area there are 11 HDTV channels, and 18 unique > > programs on at once, broadcasted free OTA. The PBS channels have 8 > > unique broadcasts alone and I watch quite a bit of PBS. Monday's, > > Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays I'm often recording 3-4 shows at once. > > Just--wow. And you managed this on an AMD 2500?
It's digital -- already encoded. It's really nothing more than just 3-4 instances of: $ cat < /dev/hdtv_device >file.mpg in parallel. Even if one stream was 5Mb/s, that is only 640KB/s. Not really that intensive. Even my single 80G ATA drive gets ~15MB/s b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell
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