[mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

Mario Limonciello mario.mailing at gmail.com
Mon May 9 20:03:29 UTC 2005


My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine
play these HD recordings after the downscaling?  So i guess the better
question is - which takes more power

Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768
or 
Outputing at 720p or 1080i

On 5/9/05, Joshua M. Thompson <funaho at jurai.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:19 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote:
> > I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My
> > frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime,
> > I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to
> > analog TV.
> >
> > Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on
> > an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ?
> >
> > Any gotachs/magic incantations/etc I need to do at the backend so the
> > transition from the HD recorded(or live) plays fine on analong
> > frontend ?
> 
> I have that exact setup at my house. My main frontend downstairs is a P4
> 3.06 that is also the master backend, and has a ivtv card connected to
> my Dish receiver for watching satellite channels. It is connected with
> svideo+spdif to my AV receiver and TV. Upstairs I have another
> front/backend combo with the pcHDTV in it that records OTA HDTV using my
> attic antenna (though sadly it's not fast enough to watch HD). Even on
> my 10 year old trinitron TV the HDTV recordings are still very
> noticeably better than anything I ever got even directly off my sat
> receiver, let alone through the capture card.
> 
> I often sit in my home office and watch the HDTV recordings on my Linux
> workstation, because once you've watched real HD it's hard to go back.
> Hell even Family Guy looks better in HD! :)
> 
> The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to
> transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to
> manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On
> the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the
> Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure
> the video at all. :)
> 
> --
> Joshua M. Thompson <funaho at jurai.org >
> 
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