On Saturday 23 June 2007 13:40:32 Taong Bahay wrote: > MythTV? I find it hard to set up when a tried it a few years ago. It
Well, I started using it years ago, when it was really hard to setup too. But it's easier today, especially on Ubuntu (well, that's what I have now). Yeah, years ago, there were a lot of things that needs to be done, but this time, on Ubuntu, "apt-get install mythtv" is all you have to do. > I don't need very high quality so okay na yung straight to mpeg4. There's another reason why you want to use a card that has a built-in encoder: if you need to use your CPU cycles for something else. Realtime MPEG4 encoding for TV streams takes 40-75% CPU usage on a 2 GHz Athlon XP 2600+. If you're using your PC to do something else while recording, things will be slow. Or if you're going to use an underpowered machine (old Pentium-II or Pentium-III systems). Right now, I'm running MythTV backend on an old Pentium-III machine. That machines is also used as a media server (nothing fancy, just Samba and NFS shares with lots of media files). Those old P-III systems are power efficient (less than 40 watts at 100% CPU utilization for the processor). It won't be able to do real-time MPEG-4 encoding, even if I removed the Samba and NFS shares. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
