[mythtv-users] OT: HDMI and DVI questions
Doug Larrick
doug at ties.org
Wed Dec 15 14:40:46 UTC 2004
Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> As far as I can tell the receiver's DVI is DVI-I (analog and digital)
> and since HDMI is digital only my guess is the cable connects the
> digital side of the DVI to HDMI.
>
> If this is the case, then the monitor is what is decoding the digital
> (MPEG2?) stream is it not? This got me thinking about how this fits
> in with Myth.
Nope, DVI is a digital transport, but its data is uncompressed frames,
not MPEG. If your set had a FireWire input, it's possible it could
decode MPEG.
-Doug
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 256 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20041215/56e1bcf0/signature.pgp
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list