Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

[Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>]

Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com> writes:

>   2) The Tivo probably has hardware dedicated to the specific purpose of
> video processing (a FPGA/CPLD type device, or maybe even an ASIC), where
> as your PC has to make do with a general-purpose microprocessor.

Yes, according to

  http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq04.019.htp

there is are dedicated encoder and decoder chips.

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