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

[Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>]

Ulrich Petri <ulope@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.

He was asking about a PAL broadcast recorder, and he actually needs a MPEG2
_en_coder card. This, however, is out of the scope of VDR AFAIR. 

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