[mythtv-users] use hdhomerun to watch live-tv on a SD tv?

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Sun Feb 24 00:57:58 UTC 2008


On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:58:20PM -0800, chuckster wrote:
> 
> >Your xbox is probably the problem -- HDHR sends whatever it
> >gets, which is MPEG2 and may be HD. If the xbox can't handle
> >display and downconvert, you have a problem.
> 
> Thanks for the info.  So when watching live-tv, there is no way to
> downconvert the MPEG2 stream on the backend (normal desktop pc) before it is
> sent to the frontend (wimpy xbox)?

Hrm. Not for live TV in Myth, that I can think of. You can try
feeding it to mencoder for on-the-fly downconversion, but I
don't know how you would view that on the xbox.

-dsr-


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