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Posted by Ken Moiarty on 03/06/06 07:26
"Lordy" <see.reply.to@lordyorguk.invalid> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.03.05.16.41.58.369099@lordyorguk.invalid...
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:43:37 -0800, Ken Moiarty wrote:
>
>> I've quickly come to the realization that using a PC for PVR use
>> takes a lot of computing power away from other tasks.
>
> Nope. If you are recording from DVB PCI card or have hardware MPEG encoder
> there is little CPU hit.
> I get about 5% CPU hit on an XP 3000 per consecutive recording, direct
> from Digital TV card.
>
What PVR software are you using? I'm finding Beyond TV to be using a
noticeable chunk of my processing power. Already running Norton Personal
Firewall and Antivirus (plus a few other very small 'memory resident' apps)
running the PVR in addition to all that has slowed things down a lot. (I
never meant to convey that it was the processing of the video stream itself
that was responsible for this. I'm well aware of the encoding work being
done on board the capture card itself, rather than the CPU, thank you.)
>>and a RAID
>>controller and case that will give me maximum room for hard drive storage
>>growth (with some redundancy, for backup)
>
> You can expand via external firewire if necessary. Not pretty though!
>
You mean via "daisy chaining"?
Ken
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