[mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?

Rudy Zijlstra mythtv at edsons.demon.nl
Sun Jan 22 16:43:56 UTC 2006


Dan Seddon wrote:

>Justin Hornsby wrote:
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>>>That all sounds a bit naff if true..... I thought there had been a lot
>>>of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in
>>>London on terrestial digital?
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>>Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely
>>they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO.
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>Yes - that rings true, hence the rush to stop analgue. I guess how much 
>HDTV we see before then depends on who can squeeze how much in to the 
>space currently available to Digital Terrestial.
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>>As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times
>>recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people
>>concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future.
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>Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't 
>arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to 
>the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've 
>bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though....
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Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or 
MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the 
decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input.


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