Posted by Spam Catcher on 09/29/60 11:41

spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote in
news:4409dec8.98715062@news-server.houston.rr.com:

> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:43:37 -0800, "Ken Moiarty" <kmoiarty35@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>But I will want to eventually pack it with at
>>least three encoder-capture cards (which would allow it up to six
>>tuners),
>
> What make and model? Why so many tuners?
>
> How much CPU power is used by these cards?

Beyond TV seems to use ~20% - 30% of my CPU per hardware encoder. I have an
Athlon XP 2000+. SageTV on the otherhand uses only 2 - 3%. BeyondTV must be
doing something else besides directly writing the data to disk.



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