"Brian J. Murrell" wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:13:06PM -0800, Greg Bell wrote: > > > > I'm putting an PII/300 to work in the living room doing various > > firewall, terminal, and MP3 type things. I'd like to turn it into a PVR > > as well. > > I have a K6-300 lying around but I have been very doubtful that it > would be effective at real-time capture and encoding after doing much > of it on my Athlon 800 and seeing what it takes CPU-wise. My Celeron 500 (basically P2-500) running mp1e at 2.3Mb/sec uses about 25% CPU time. Likely you couldn't actually get by with 25% of the software power because I'm sure the CPU usage is spiky, but I wouldn't rule out a 300Mhz processor if your expectations are reasonable. I'd be interested to know of people using other software (NVRec?) or other formats to get better video quality per MB if the CPU is available. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@xxxxxxx ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/ "Come on people, this poetry isn't going to appreciate itself!" - Bart
