My message to the list seemed to get mangled. I'm resending. 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. > Is that correct? Yes and no. Not _every_ capture card does enc/dec. The $50 ones most definitely do not. :) The encoding and decoding is what needs the speed. Just make sure you have DMA enabled for your hard disks for fast performance. If you buy a good encoder I don't see why you would have problems. Good Luck. Chris -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 11:46:21 up 3:42, 2 users, load average: 0.69, 0.58, 0.51 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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