Another PVR question

Christopher Ness nesscg at mcmaster.ca
Mon Apr 19 15:50:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:13, Charles Howse wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 09:59 am, Christopher Ness wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:45, Charles Howse wrote:
> > > This computer - PIII 600, 512 MB ram.  Dual-booting Win XP Pro and FC1.
> >
> > It is recommended that you get a computer with some balls.  The owner of
> > the project says he runs his on an AMD1800 machine and the theoretical
> > lower end is a 500Mhz machine.
> >
> > He traded his 550Mhz in for the current machine to be able to "pause"
> > live tv (requires encoding and decoding processes).
> 
> Hmmm...I did see that when reading, but I understood that if using a capture 
> card that does the encoding and decoding, then a slower cpu is acceptable


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