Re: im pretty sure that i posted last night...
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Originally posted by jcc2k4
yea, im almost positive that i posted last night about some old guy asking me if he could burn a cd while recording the SAME thing from his tv.
the specs are:
3.06 ghz
1 gig ram
dvd-rw burner
radeon 9000 all in wonder
if you dont get what i mean please post, i said that i didn't think you could do it but i would do research just to make sure.
-Jcc2k4 |
...OK...
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Originally posted by jcc2k4
regardless if i posted in the wrong place, i would still like an answer to my question.... |
...and your
question was...?
CAN it be done? I don't see why not. Burning a DVD takes NO RESOURCES (well, less than 5% or so?) so I don't see how that would interfer with the TV-capture... unless you're talking about streaming to DVD (basically), then this cannot be done with low-end machines (and by that I mean, not the high-end hollywood editing machines like
ModernVideoFilm uses).
Basically, once you capture (or have ANY digital source) on your laptop, it must be CONVERTED to MPEG (i.e. encoded for DVD) and this is done via SOFTWARE on the Sager.
Now, my 8887 could encode in "about real time" - meaning 1x-ish. It also used the entire HT P4 3.06GHz, so I don't think there'd be enough room for DVD burning at the same time.
HOWEVER, if you meant "Can someone WATCH one show on a TV-Tuner card WHILE burning something ELSE on DVD" then I think it's entirely possible.
Get something with a massive RAM buffer (of several GIGs, 64-bit here...) and stream into that, hardware encode, and output to another smaller (6GB) buffer for burning.
This ain't as simple as an analog VCR, ya know!
-myrkat
