Performance
This is a judicious cut and paste from my Prolink PlayTV P7000 review which uses the same capture setup and testing.Video recording performance was measured using a Model 3400+ Athlon 64 (2.2GHz, 1MB, Socket 745) on an ASUS K8V motherboard (VIA K8T800 chipset) with a single 512MB Corsair XMS3500 DIMM (2-2-2-6 timings).
Video quality was set to 'Best' at all times, CPU usage was measured using a custom application that reads Windows performance counters.
The record source was a playback of the first 5 minutes of the first Lord of the Rings movie on DVD, outputting to the S-Video capture port on the NVTV.
Like the P7000's on-board MPEG-2 encoder, the LSI on the NVTV is capable of some impressive CPU usage figures on the test system, when recording MPEG-2 video. Much like the P7000 review, the NVTV was also tested with live television as the capture source and CPU usage was found to be similar to the control source.
