[mythtv-users] Pundit-R & HDTV

Mudit Wahal mwahal at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 13:36:34 EST 2005


Richard,

Thats an excellent tool !! I installed all the bookmarklets from the site !

Thanks
Mudit

On 12/2/05, Richard Bronosky <mythtv at bronosky.com> wrote:
>  Very useful, thank you.  Here's a useful tip for you in return.  You could
> have linke to
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/163280#164999
> instead of saying "9th post".  But you had no way of knowing that.  So,
> here's the tip:  Every blogger should have this bookmarklet in their
> favorites.
> http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#named_anchors
>  When you use that bookmarklet, it makes all the hidden named anchors (which
> are what permit the # linking convention) visible.  It's very cool.
>
>  There are many other great tools there.  My FAVORITE is
> http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password
> which I can use to remove the annoy "feature" that my employer, banks, and
> brokerage houses use to prevent my browser from prompting to save my
> password.  It's a real time saver!
>
>
>  Mudit Wahal wrote:
>  check out the 9th post for transcoding 1080i to 720p.
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/163280
>
> On 12/2/05, Blastzone <blastzone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  I'm bumping this thread, since it got a little sidetracked. I'll also ask
> this, in the hopes that someone already has an answer...
>
>  It certainly looks like I'm not going to get very far with the ATI video in
> the Pundit-r. And I don't have the room to tack in another PCI card,
> without removing a capture card.
>
>  So, since my output is 720p native resolution *anyway*, what's the
> preferred method to transcode a recorded 1080i stream to a 720p stream (or
> less)? Perhaps that would allow me to at least kinda watch TV.
>
>  thanks!
>
> On 11/30/05, Scott <catfather at donpoo.net> wrote:
>
>
>  On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Blastzone wrote:
>
>
>  Playing an HD stream (1080i) through myth shows:
> processor at 100% (split between Mythfrontend and X)
> pink bar covering right side of screen (I know this was discussed
> earlier, but I haven't looked for it yet)
>
>  The pink bar is an ATI xvideo issue. You might try to work around it
> with the binary ATI drivers instead. 720p video won't have a problem,
> just any xvideo playback larger than 1280x720 (from memory) doesn't
> scale right so you see pink.
>
>
>
>  audio skips, and stutters
> video running at horrible framerate 5-10 fps
>
> I haven't been able to look at 720p streams yet, at least, not that
> i know of.
>
> My question is, are there others out there successfully using a
> pundit-r to watch HD streams, and if so, what should I be looking
> at fixing?
>
>  I've got the other version of the pundit running a 2.8GHz Northwood.
> I quickly came the conclusion via testing various 1080i and 720p
> clips with both the onboard SIS and a ATI PCI adapter that HDTV
> playback on the pundit wasn't going to be great without going down
> the Nvidia + XVMC road. After considering XVMC and looking at the
> video deinterlace quality and pundit box itself I've decided to avoid
> HDTV for now and plan for it when I can build the 'killer box".
>
> --
> Scott <catfather at donpoo.net>
> AIM: BlueCame1
>
>
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