[mythtv-users] transcoding HD material to ease playback
Michelle Dupuis
support at ocg.ca
Fri Jan 11 14:40:02 UTC 2008
Can you tell me where you found sample HD content? I'm looking for
something to test my home theatre but I don't have BlueRay yet..
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dan Christensen
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:11 AM
> To: Myth TV Users List
> Subject: [mythtv-users] transcoding HD material to ease playback
>
> I've got a frontend/backend that is just barely able to play some HD
> material: it's a 32-bit single-core mobile Athlon at 1.9GHz,
> with an FX5200 video card. I was surprised that it can play
> HD material at all, but it does fine on most of the sample
> clips I've downloaded, using 60-80% cpu. (I'm not using
> xvmc.) However, in a few cases it is not able to play the HD
> sample. So I thought that I could transcode such material
> into a format that requires less cpu to play:
>
> 1) The most obvious thing is to do the scaling ahead of time.
> My HDTV has non-square pixels, so almost all material needs
> scaling, and I'm guessing that this will help a lot. Or does
> the video card do all of that work??
>
> 2) I wonder if lowering the bitrate a bit might help?
>
> 3) What codec should I use? I'm not too concerned about disk
> space, as these are just short clips I'm playing with to see
> how my HDTV looks.
>
> Comments, and even specific command lines, are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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