Linux PVR

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org: 
 
> I have a PIII 800 with RedHat 7.3 .  It was simple to watch TV with the 
> card.    You just fire up xawtv, the card was recognized just immediately. 
>  
> Recording was a little tougher.  I installed nvrec.  That was a little bit 
> of a challange to set up.  My PC seemed to be fast enough to record.  If 
> bumped the quality up to 100%, it would start to get choppy. 
 
We had similar trouble getting DVD playback at full screen/full quality on a 
750MHz machine a couple of years ago (bleeding edge).  In fact, I still have 
the AGI All-In-Wonder 128 PCI card we used if anyone's interested in it. 
 
I think we've heard from some people who have done full-screen, full quality 
capture and playback - with processors available that are three times as fast, 
is a single-CPU unit enough these days?  How much CPU do you need for 
full-speed, full-screen video processing? 

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