All in wonder VE on slow PC?

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The ATI web site says MPEG2 capturing requires 500Mhz processor. I am
thinking of buying a Celeron 500MHz PC (it's small and quiet). Is this
border-line case good enough for MPEG2 capturing? Does anyone have a
similar setting?

Thanks
 
On 30 Jul 2003 01:08:38 -0700
The ATI web site says MPEG2 capturing requires 500Mhz processor. I am
thinking of buying a Celeron 500MHz PC (it's small and quiet). Is this
border-line case good enough for MPEG2 capturing? Does anyone have a
similar setting?
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Depends on what resolution you want to use, but I think you'll find it
_very_ marginal--I still drop the occasional frame at high-res with an
Athlon 1400 and RAID. On hardware that slow I'd go with the Hauppauge
PVR-250 or 350 or if you can find one the old Matrox G200 Marvel, all
of which have dedicated hardware for MPEG-2 compression--I think you'll
be a lot happier with one of those with that processor.
 
Depends on what resolution you want to use, but I think you'll find it
_very_ marginal--I still drop the occasional frame at high-res with an
Athlon 1400 and RAID. On hardware that slow I'd go with the Hauppauge
PVR-250 or 350 or if you can find one the old Matrox G200 Marvel, all
of which have dedicated hardware for MPEG-2 compression--I think you'll
be a lot happier with one of those with that processor.
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Agreed, you dont want to go for 'minimum specifications', as the AIW cards
dont have true hardware MPEG2 compression, more of a hardware accelerated
compression. Not only that, if you are going to be doing any post
processing, CPU speed is essential. Dont sell yourself short.
 
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