Any way to setup true "pass-thru" on PVR-350?

[EwanG]

Yes, I am trying to make my poor little machine do too much. Specifically, I have a lot (!) of old video I am currently in the process of converting to MPEG-2 material using TMPGEnc. That means that my CPU is in the 90's most of the time on most days. I can setup GB-PVR to run on the same machine, but watching live TV is next to impossible. The only video out on my machine is the PVR-350, so using the "other" card is out. Adding another video card is not an option as all 3 PCI slots are full, and there's no AGP slot.

I've tried turning the Live Preview and such either off or to 0 ms, but that seems to make only a slight difference.

Any ideas - other than not running both things on the same box?

[EwanG]

Having heard nothing, I'm gathering that I may be asking for more than is possible. I'm going to try doing an encoding today with TMPGEnc set to a "low" priority. Will make it take longer, but that might not be as much of a problem if I can keep everything else going ok...

[Darx-starz]

I think you know the answer to your problem. To do something you need proper tools. Get a better machine to run it on.

[EwanG]

Get a better machine to run it on.

Current machine is a Pentium 4, 2.93 GhZ, 512 megs RAM with built-in 128 meg RAM video. How much better of a machine would I need to get to make this run ok? More RAM? Something else I'm missing?

[sub]

Running TMPGENC with low priority should help.