Jacek Pop³awski wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:50:37PM -0600, Steve Russo wrote: > > mp1e and (v4l2/bttv2/v4l/bttv) rock. > > I have just installed mp1e - yes, it's rock! > I can easly record 518x384, 25fps, with sound, and it consume much less > cpu than mpeg player (gtv, smpeg) ! The reason for that as I understand it is that mp1e doesn't do P or B frames, just I frames. This means its output is less compressed than most mpegs you get. Since it doesn't have to do motion compensation vector stuff, it saves a lot of CPU. An encoder that does P and B frames will take a lot more cpu time than a decoder playing back P and B frames. Stephen. --
