MythTV hw question

[Thomas Charron]

On 11/10/06, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Dave Johnson <dave-gnhlug at davej.org> writes:
> >
> > > That's probably fine for a backend, but may be a bit slow for decoding
> > > for the frontend.  I've noticed cpu power requirements for playing
> > > are perportional to the bitrate of the MPEG2 so you can always crank
> > > down the bitrate setting when recording to find what it can handle.
> > But wouldn't the 350 be able to handle that decoding for me?  That's
> > why I was thinking of getting that card, it can do both.
>
>
>   Correct.  Either that or one of the Via EPIA boards can use hardware
> decoding.
>

  I happened to have it bookmarked, so in case you haven't read it yet,
check out this part of the howto.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html

  Thomas
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