[Eug-lug] How about that New HP unit.

[perdurabo]

This is probably a bit misleading to the layman. Most of us in the
SageTV community (and Frey recommends) have a WinTV-PVR card with
hardware MPEG2 encoding and decoding. So yes, it does use very little
CPU power. I leave my SageTV processes up and running while I play
Grand Theft Auto: VC, for example, with little slowdown.

Also with these cards, they pipe everything having to do with SageTV
out of the WinTV card's video outs, instead of your normal video card,
so you're perfectly free to use your Windows desktop while SageTV is
running. I'm not sure how they're doing this in the Linux version, but
I suspect they're doing it the same exact way as MythTV does it.

per

PS: I also used to cat/dd from /dev/video to record mpeg streams under
Linux. Twas pretty cool.


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:20:17 -0800, Jacob Meuser <jakemsr at jakemsr.com> wrote:

> I'm highly skeptical of the following claim on sage.tv,
> 
> "On average, SageTV uses less than 5% of your PC's system resources
> and allows you to use other programs while recording television.
> This performance-saving feature allows you to get DVD quality
> recordings without any sacrifice to your productivity."
> 
> 5% of system resources to capture and encode for DVD?  _maybe_ if it
> captures to raw format, and then encodes (slowly) later.