I've happily used mplayer to time shift, if can record a 1 hour program start watching after 10 mins of so and see the whole lot.... On Wednesday 23 Apr 2003 8:27 am, Robert Linden wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:52:48PM +0200, Ralf Haller wrote: > > [...] > > Have you tried timeshifting with a Duron machine? I am thinking of > > getting a PC with a Duron 1300 CPU. > > I have not realy tried timeshifting, but I have a Duron :) It's a 700, on > an Asus A7V-board, and the tv-card is the FlyVideo3K. Capturing (directly > to msmpeg4 for example) works perfectly for VCD-resolutions (352x288). > Higher gets problematic and soon frames get dropped. Playing back such a > file with mplayer while capturing is no problem either. But since mplayer > doesn't play past the end of the file as it where when it startet playing I > won't call that timeshifting yet. > So, if you don't need hires then your prospective machine will do the job > just fine, that's for sure. > > All the best, > rob > > PS: I'm looking for hints as to how I can capture with the best quality. > Size does matter only as far as my memory/disk-bandwidth is concerned. > How do you guys capture video, if you want to do the compression later?
