[OT] Re: [ale] pci video card with TV in

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at sciatl.com
Thu Apr 24 16:12:10 EDT 2003


Geoffrey wrote:
> George Carless wrote:
> 
>> I doubt that
>> the "viewing" element is nearly as processor-intensive as the recording,
>> either -- I'm not really familiar with the technology, but my impression
>> was that simply watching tv with a tv tuner card added almost no cpu 
>> load.
> 
> 
> I can verify that.  Appears to be no hit whatsoever.

But that's a different thing from viewing a recorded show while recording 
another show.  Both of those will use the {en_de}coder and disk.


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