I'm in Australia and have Optus cable at home and I'm getting Foxtel
cable TV over that cable service as well as being in a digital broadcast
area, so I'm aware that I can use a DVB card to grab digital broadcasts
from the air, or use a bog standard analog capture card and IR
transmitter to channel change the Foxtel unit, right?
You can do both if you like. This is what I do (with optus cable).
So, given the dual CPU available to me right now, should I proceed with
the purchase of a capture card, or am I waving the proverbial in the
wind? Should I concentrate on acquiring myself a faster CPU before
thinking about purchasing a capture card or will the dual CPU cut it
once I play with the capture rate? And will I be able to watch 'live' TV
with MythTV?
TIA,
If you use hardware encoding capture cards (DVB-T does this, and
analogue capture cards like the PVR-250) you don't need a lot of CPU for
the capture of the video.
Not sure if the CPUs will be enough for playback though. But I've
played back my recordings on a P3-700 with no problems (from a remote
backend).
Hope this helps.
Nick
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