[vdr] Re: A PAL Broadcast TV Hard Drive Recorder

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Steven Armstrong wrote:
> Hi,
> I am interested in building a  PAL Broadcast TV Hard Drive Recorder. I
> understand that this project together with a hardware MPEG2 
> encoder card
> will do what I want.  As MPEG2 encoder cards aren't cheap my 
> question is
> what speed of CPU could handle software encoding and still 
> carry out the
> functions of the VDR? I would prefer not to go to a multi CPU
> motherboard.
> 

Hi you don't need an encoder but a decoder card.
You will at least have to use a budget DVB card (e.g. WinTV-Nova) and a
"Realmagic Holywood plus" aka. "Creative DXR3" MPEG2 decoder crad. Both
you can get for about 40 Euro at ebay.

CU Ulrich



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