[mythtv-users] Some questions about HDTV recording
Nate Carlson
natecars at natecarlson.com
Sun Dec 12 19:13:46 UTC 2004
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Brad Templeton wrote:
> I'm finding it to be a pain. Here are some pains I have seen:
[Wow, long list! - thanks! :) Responding to ones I have questions about;
filing the rest away.]
> a) Getting your video card to display on the HDTV can be a lot of work,
> requires pushing the edge, newer drivers etc. Often this leads to hard
> crashing and upgrade troubles.
>
> a2) Many HDTVs won't actually take input at 720p.
> a3) DVI can be harder to get going than other output forms.
> l) Did I mention it can be a bitch to get your card to drive your HDTV
> at 1920 x 1080? Many people give up and drive at 1920 x 540p (but then
> you get interlace artifacts if not careful.)
I've got my TV running at 1280p already; it seems to work quite well for
regular tv. Will that not be the case for playing HDTV-encoded programs?
> d) DVD playing needs to be modified to understand 16:9 TVs
All I had to do (for dvd rips, haven't actually used a disc to playback in
a long time) is change the mplayer options to include '-monitoraspect
16:9'; works quite well here.
> j) AC-3 sound is not handled well. The center channel will be missing
> sometimes. Alsa drivers have bugs, and can cause jittery audio or
> hanging.
AC-3 works fine for DVD rips for me; is it a different case for HD
playback since it's handled by Myth's audio layer?
> And I have heard more.
Thanks again for the list!
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