Brian J. Murrell writes: > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:54:09PM +0530, Das Menon wrote: > > For an appropriate implementation of PVR, one need to save the data is > > "PES", which is the output of the TS Demux, which means that the TS Demux > > output can be routed out into the HDD > > This is where my interest lies! I want to use the kfir chip for what > I use 40-50% of my Athlon TB 800 right now, encoding to MPEG. > > > in addition to the MPEG2 decoder. > > Even sweeter if it has an MPEG2 decoder on it. > > > One > > also need to worry about proper time stamping so that when the PES is > > played back lip synch is proper. > > The kfir does not encode audio with the MPEG? Or is it that the MPEG2 > decoder doesn't decode it? > > > The compressed PES occupies about 2GB per hour of video/audio. > > This is about the bitrate I am encoding to with mp1e in software. I > would like to offload it to a hardware encoder. > For more information about the kfir see http://www.linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml and links on that page. Marcus
