[plug] TV Ripping

[Steve Baker]

Simon Newton wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:16 +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
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>>Timothy White wrote:
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>>>p.s. I am looking at the Dual Dvico card, just cause it looks nice... ;-)
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>>This one?
>>http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/Products/DualDigital.aspx
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>>It looks like you need to run a USB cable from the back of the PCI card,
>>to a USB 2.0 port.
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>That's the one I use. There is also an internal USB connection so you
>don't have to run cables outside the machine.
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What goes over the USB connection?  Why don't they just move it across 
the PCI bus?

On another note, how much CPU do these babies use when recording two 
channels?  I've been looking around for linux-supported DVB cards with 
in-built MPEG encoders, which are obviously more expensive but don't hit 
the CPU as much.  This is important for me because my media-storing PC 
is relatively old and I don't want a brand new PC just to record 
television.  Most DVB cards seem to recommend fairly grunty CPUs to 
record video - if all you are doing is saving the MPEG stream off the 
card why are so many processor cycles required?  (I know re-encoding to 
a more compact  codec is going to be processor heavy, does it do 
something like this whilst recording?)

Regards,
Steve