[mythtv-users] XvMC, Plextor Question, and Sound

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 11, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> On Friday 10 February 2006 6:37 pm, Brian Wood wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The Plextor supports any resolution up to D1; does MythTV not offer
>>> the
>>> option of 720x480 (720x576 for PAL)?
>>
>> By golly you're right. I'd seen on a Gentoo WiKi entry someplace that
>> it would only do 640x480, which did seem strange to me.
>>
>> Now I'll have to find that entry and correct it.
>
> I'm not sure I see the point. My IVTV card records at 480x480, and
> MythBurn has no trouble burning those recordings to DVD. And my
> cheap circa 2002 $100 Apex DVD player plays those DVDs just fine.
>
> How would 720x480 help the problem of burning mpeg-4 to DVD?
>
Only the fact that the resolution, at least, would already be  
correct. It seems to me (but only intuitively) that it would make the  
transcoding less work, but intuition may be quite wrong in this case.

Incidentally, the wiki entry I referred to above also said that you  
could set the resolution to half-D1 to "make your Plextor work less  
hard", which seemed a silly thing to be concerned about to me, I want  
that puppy working its guts out :-)