PVR question, software encoding vs. hardware encoding

[iamtrout]

What are the benefits to hardware encoding on a TV tuner card? Is the quality better? How much power and system resources would get hogged if I used software encoding? Would I even have to worry about this if I encoded everything into DiVX, not MPEG?

 

[mrwxyz]

i've heard that hardware encoding does a better job of syncing the audio with video and the quality is better....

i dont know from experience though, but i have a hardware encoder on my wintv pvr150 and no complaints

 

[iamtrout]

bump for a hands on reply

 

[imported_manchild]

try the video forum?

 

[iamtrout]

true.....