Dual WinTV Go capture

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Hi,

I want to upgrade my system to a HTPC/PVR machine, hooked up to the TV
set.
I already have two WinTV Go's, so I'd really like to recycle those.
My question therefore is: what processor power do I need for capturing
from both of them at the same time (since they haven't got hardware
encoding)?
I'll probably capture in MPEG-4, like x-vid, and for having good
picture quality encode at 640x480, however please correct me if you
think it's worthwile changing such set-up.
I was thinking of two possibilities: the minimal/cheap setup (Gigabyte
GA-8TRS350MT + Celeron 2.8) or the top-of-the-bill (MSI RS480M2 + AMD
Athlon 64 3000 or higher). Both have integrated graphics and TV-out
for saving expansion slots and heat buildup from a possible AGP card.
If the cheaper setup can handle my needs, that's what I'll go for.
Otherwise it has to be the latter, or buying hardware encoding capable
capture cards I guess (and thus begging my wife for a bigger budget
:-O)...

Does anyone has experience with a set-up like this?

Any comments are welcome!
K

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How are you going to record audio from 2 WinTV cards similtaneously? (they
feed into the sound card?)



"K" <kristofvdw@matt.es> wrote in message
news:ef74fcf7.0503170402.274943c@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I want to upgrade my system to a HTPC/PVR machine, hooked up to the TV
> set.
> I already have two WinTV Go's, so I'd really like to recycle those.
> My question therefore is: what processor power do I need for capturing
> from both of them at the same time (since they haven't got hardware
> encoding)?
> I'll probably capture in MPEG-4, like x-vid, and for having good
> picture quality encode at 640x480, however please correct me if you
> think it's worthwile changing such set-up.
> I was thinking of two possibilities: the minimal/cheap setup (Gigabyte
> GA-8TRS350MT + Celeron 2.8) or the top-of-the-bill (MSI RS480M2 + AMD
> Athlon 64 3000 or higher). Both have integrated graphics and TV-out
> for saving expansion slots and heat buildup from a possible AGP card.
> If the cheaper setup can handle my needs, that's what I'll go for.
> Otherwise it has to be the latter, or buying hardware encoding capable
> capture cards I guess (and thus begging my wife for a bigger budget
> :-O)...
>
> Does anyone has experience with a set-up like this?
>
> Any comments are welcome!
> K

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Yeah, also thought of that; I'd probably put an extra sound card in...

"John" <knight_js.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<423b1679$0$5598$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> How are you going to record audio from 2 WinTV cards similtaneously? (they
> feed into the sound card?)

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In article <423c4012$0$22218$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
knight_js.nospam@yahoo.com says...
>
> "Dave Navarro" <dave@dave.dave> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1ca57ea522effe259896b1@newsgroups.comcast.net...
> > In article <423b1679$0$5598$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
> > knight_js.nospam@yahoo.com says...
> > > How are you going to record audio from 2 WinTV cards similtaneously?
> (they
> > > feed into the sound card?)
> >
> > The old ones do, but the new ones don't. I verified this with
> > Hauppauge.
>
> Ok, that's interesting

Check this one out:

http://www.snapstream.com/community/articles/medusa/

It has 6 tuners in it.