[mythtv-users] Resolution, capture resolution, refresh rate, etc.

[Mark]

Hey, everyone. I'm building a MythTV combined frontend/backend on an Ubuntu Feisty box, but I have little knowledge of how video works. I've read through the documentation, but I have some remaining questions where it's unclear. By the way, I have a Hauppage PVR-150-MCE, an NVidia 7800GT (it's my desktop computer, too), and an SD TV. I live in the U.S.

1. What should I set as my capture resolution in the setup? I don't know if I want to have my native TV resolution (is SD 640x480 in the U.S.?), have 525 instead of 480, or use a higher resolution which will be converted by my video card to my TV's resolution. My computer can handle all the encoding and decoding in the world, I'm sure.

2. What should I set as my output resolution, refresh rate (I believe it's subdivided into horizontal and vertican scan, but I may be wrong), dot-clock, and that stuff? I'm outputting to my TV's S-Video port. Try to explain fairly in-depth, since I'm still new to this topic.

3. How do I set the information from question 2? I believe I need to use modelines, so is videogen a good tool? Should this page ( http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Modelines ) get me running?

Thanks in advance!




       
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