On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:20:40AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > Er, well, I was referring to the difficulty of demodulating digital > transmissions in 8VSB, QAM64, QAM128, etc., which is an entirely > different problem. Ah, well nobody does that in software (yet), the DVB cards just provide you with a multi-channel MPEG-2 stream, you grab the channel you want from that stream and discard the rest (or do PiP/recording/whatever) > If MPEG2 decoding has gotten so good, I'm pretty amazed -- one of the > big reasons I had for upgrading to my 1.3GHz system (which was pretty > top-of-the-line at the time) was because I couldn't adequately play > movies on my 350 MHz AMD K6-2 (but it's entirely possible that the > Pentium chip could outperform the my old AMD chip if floating-point > decoding is used..) K6-2 350 is adequate, I've done my testing with mplayer, the biggest slowdown was having a video card that supported overlays and a few other things. (I tossed a GeForce 2 PCI in there) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list