Posted by Lordy on 03/07/06 10:32

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:26:07 -0800, Ken Moiarty wrote:

>> 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?

MythTV on Linux. Not much help tp you I'm afraid!

> 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"?

Or any kind of external storage, will give you room :)

Lordy

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