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"David J. C. Beach" <beach at verinet.com> writes: > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 13:33, Derek Atkins wrote: >> I don't know... I've never seen recordings that high.. I record >> my NTSC at 720x480 and my PVR gives me 3-4GB recordings all the >> time. Perhaps it's your compression settings? > > I've been using MythTV for several months now, and have built a > dedicated PVR system around it, based on a Celeron 2.4GHz with 512MB > RAM. I've built a dedicated machine around an Athlon-XP 2600+, 512MB, 200GB. It works great. > I use the software MPEG-4 encoding and I'm getting approximately 1-2 GB > per 1 hour of recoring. I used to use RT jpeg, but I found it to be too > wasteful. I'm having some definite recording quality issues, but feel > that this may be the fault of the capture cart (a cheap Wonder VE). I just stay with mpeg2. Yea, it uses more disk space, but the quality is excellent. > Is the PVR250/350 the "way to go" on capture cards? IMHO, yes. Note that in order to use the -350 you MUST store in MPEG2. You cannot play out MPEG4 or RTjpeg out the -350 output. However, the load of myth using the -350 is nearly zero! It's spending all it's time on I/O, the CPU isn't doing anything. I would highly recommend the PVR-x50 cards... If you can afford them. > Dave -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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