On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's time consuming, definately, but the results are worth it. > > For material that you want to keep on a long term basis this might be > true. But I am looking for PVR functionality here. Record a one-hour > television show, watch it, delete it. Getting near-DVD quality in a > small amount of space would sure be nice, but not at the expense of > taking 8-10 hours to encode it.
If you just want a PVR, then why not keep the recording in mjpeg form? Sure it takes up more space then mpeg2, but what costs more, a 100GB+ ide drive or a hardware mpeg2 compression card? Of course hardware mpeg for linux isn't possible at this time anyway, but large harddrives work fine, so it's not like that's even a real choice. I haven't been following the thread that closely, but have you tried mpeg2enc without using any scaling or de-noising? Those steps are very cpu intensive and if you're not looking for quality... ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
