How much can we capture in realtime

[Olleman]

Hey!

I'm about to buy a AMD Athlon XP and I'm cruious what I can capture in realtime :) For example, should it be possible to rip PAL 640*480 with DivX 4.11 and if that's possible would it work with the "deinterlace" option as well? I know I could do it afterwards but I'd like to use my computer as a VCR where I will record programs I just want to see one time and then throw it away.

So how fast is really a AMD XP ?

Please give me some numbers :)

Regards, Olle

[mpucoder]

Do you mean rip or capture? An Athlon could probably do all that in realtime. The question is should you? Quite often filters need tweaking, so it's better to process the video afterwards.
If you just want to watch it once, watch it on your computer monitor, where de-interlace is not an issue.

[Olleman]

I'd like to watch it afterwards if I haven't got the time to se it when it's aired...

So numbers, again please :)

Regards, Olle

[hulkenstrong]

Hi. I got a T-bird 900 whit ASUS V7700 and i can capture to DivX 4.11 640*480 25 fps realtime (if using normal or fast in divx settings) but can´t compress sound (but hear that mp3 realtime compression is buggy)...and MPEG-1/2 are no problem either so my gues are that an desent XP will let you compress in realtime to almost any format you want.

[Cart]

I haven't checked out the deinterlace feature in DivX 4 yet, but it's probably not motion-based. This means that you may be better off capturing 240 lines and avoiding the interlacing (and higher CPU usage) altogether.

-Cart
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