> > > anything based on bt878 should be fine. my wintvgo is super. obviously > > > mencoder does all the capture outside of the card itself. > > But how much CPU power do you need to fluently encode full PAL in mpeg4 with a > bt8x8? I guess below 1.5GHz won't be enough? top reports around 25% cpu usage on my athy 1.2 chris xxxx