[plug] TV Ripping

[Timothy White]

On 13/03/06, Mike Holland <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Simon Newton wrote:
>  > But then I'd have to have a splitter for antenna cable = more cables.
>
> Some DVB cards have RF pass-through, like on a VCR or STB.
>
>
> > >>On another note, how much CPU do these babies use when recording two
>
> > My Athlon 700 can record 2 channels using about 25-30% cpu.
>
> Thats a lot. My olde celeron-333 uses 8%, 1 channel. Is your DMA turned on?
>
> > It's the
> > playback the requires a fairly decent machine.
>
> The same old 333MHz PII box can just handle SD playback, and I don't
> call that a decent box :-)
>
>  > My 1.4M laptop plays SD
> > back fine, but skips when playing HD content.
>
> The current bottom-of-the-range AMD (sempr0n 2600 1.6GHz) will manage
> HD playback, and can compress SD to mpeg-4 at at least double realtime.
> (I use mplayer/mencoder.)  So its not a big difficulty.

Of course, I'm not /that/ worried about all that stuff. Cause the
machine it will be in, is a nice AMD64 3000+, and the encoding will
also take place on that machine.

Do you have any scripts for doing the compression from SD to mpeg-4,
or HD to mpeg-4? If you already have the command line options, I'd
rather not reinvent the wheel ;-)

Thanks

Tim
p.s. As I said before, I'll go for a single channel now, I was looking
at the dual channel cause I thought it had them both on the single PCI
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