Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

[Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 13:33 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
>   considering but perhaps not.  After all my objective is just to
>   capture the digital video stream and burn it to a CD or DVD.
If it is just to capture and not to capture and encode/transcode on the
fly, an AthlonXP 1800+ (1.5GHz) is more than fast enough.

For encoding on the fly, it is still fast enough.  In fact, I encoded
for DVD on the fly from my TV card with a 1200MHz Duron with 256MB PC133
memory.

Hans