[mythtv-users] many questions from a MythTV newbie

Warren warren-lists at icruise.com
Wed Mar 29 16:50:10 UTC 2006


R. G. Newbury wrote:
> P
> You must understand that the hd3000 does not go a good job in NTSC mode, 
> as it has no hardware encode/decode capability. You have to use the box 
> and software to deal with the signal...The Hauppauge cards, on the other 
> hand have that built in, and therefor feed the same digital stream as 
> the HD card does in ATSC to the bus.
> Therefore my small/quiet Via SP13000 can record 3 simultaneous programs: 
> 2 in SD from a PV500 and 1 ATSC from the HD3000. Note that this 
> motherboard does not do full HD... it is limited to 1024x1024 on TV out 
> (but the internal video to monitor will do 1980x 1080 and uses Xvmc.
>
> Tradeoffs....compromises.
>
> Geoff
>   
Realistically on an EPIA-SP13000 board, given that the TV encoder is a
VT1623, you are not going to get better than 480p/576p, as it is an SDTV
encoder chip.  If you want any kind of Hidef from that board you need to
go through the VGA out.

W


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