Posted by Lordy on 01/10/24 11:41

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.

>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!

Lordy

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