[mythtv-users] Thanks!

[yan seiner]

Phill Edwards wrote:

>>It is now happily recording the shows I want, and I can even play HDTV
>>back after transcoding....  Analog works fine without transcoding.
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>Just a question for the group. Does it make sense to record in HDTV
>and then transcode? Why record in the best quality and then downgrade
>the quality to something else? Wouldn't it make more sense to record
>in a lower format in the 1st place, such as SDTV (assuming, of course,
>that SDTV is available)?
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Well, at least in my case, I have to record in HD, but my frontend will 
segfault if I try to play it.  I'm guessing it's something to do with 
large formats and video cards (I have a Matrox G550 and a crappy i810).

Transcoded to 720x420 works like a charm.  And since the vast majority 
of my shows are PBS (public television for the furreigners among us :-) 
)-type documentaries and/or kids shows, the time delay doesn't bother me.

--Yan