[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV & pcHDTV

[Chris Pinkham]

> Thanks for the clarification.  Things make sense now that your mention that HD
> is broadcast in MPEG.  So changing the quality level of the recording has zero
> effect on how the video is initially stored.  So really the menu item for
> pcHDTV transcoder should be removed?

More that the options for bitrate, resolution, etc. should be removed.  The
transcode option should stay.  I have 2 Air2PC cards and record shows
at HDTV resolution, but don't have a frontend (yet) that's powerful enough to
display the recordings.  So, I've done some work recently on mythtranscode
which allows me to transcode down those recordings to something that will
play on my slower frontends.  Then when I get around to upgrading my
frontends to something more powerful, I can turn off transcoding if I
want and watch the recordings in all their glory.  Right now I'm still
enjoying the benefits of digital even though I spend a bit of CPU converting
the recordings down to a lower resolution MPEG4 nuppel file.

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Chris