[mythtv-users] How to record HD and SD versions of sameshow

[john roberts]

I 2nd the request.

I haven't had much luck in down-res'ing my HD shows.

-John

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Shay" <david at shay.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How to record HD and SD versions of sameshow
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:17:58 -0500

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Templeton" <brad+myth at templetons.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How to record HD and SD versions of same show
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:55:09PM -0400, James Armstrong wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > David Shay wrote:
> > > >I have some HDTV-capable frontends and some non-HDTV capable frontends.
> I
> > > >would like to setup a "record all showings on this channel" entry for a
> > > >series, one for the HD channel and one for the SD channel, thereby
> getting
> > > >two non-duplicated versions of every episode, one in HD and one in SD.
> => Or you could write a script to transcode/down-rez the HD version and
> > keep it in videos.   It will look much better than any version recorded
> > off something like a pvr-250, and may look better than a version recorded
> > off the SDTV digital subchannel, if that's what you are doing.
> 
> I am recording the SD versions on a pvr-250.
> 
> Well, I've tried various ways to transcode/downres the shows from the HD
> channels and I can get that working well enough for actual Mythfrontends.
> My problem is that I am also using some Hauppauge MediaMVP psuedo-frontends
> and I can't seem to get a working mencoder or other command to transcode
> down and play correctly, i.e. with correct A/V sync and the ability to skip
> forward/backward correctly.  Yeah, that's really an issue for the MVP list,
> but that's why it's not a real suitable solution at the moment.  Anyone care
> to share there favorite command lines to downres HDTV content?
> 
> I know I can turn off duplicate checking but that's not ideal either.  For
> instance, right now if you turn off duplicate checking you would get about
> 1000 different copies of "Revelations"...
> 
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