<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Josh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com">jaw1959@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you're recording all digital, then you will most likely not be re-<br>
encoding, and you'd likely need less CPU for a system recording HD<br>
than SD analog because all you'll be doing is writing the data to a<br>
hard drive (commercial flagging aside).<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I don't have a P4 or an HD content in mythtv so I can't speak for sure, but it was my empression from other posts on this list that a P4 wouldn't be adequate for HD playback, at least not at higher bitrates or H264.<br>
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