[mythtv-users] Playback of HDTV, HDHomeRun

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 14:10:30 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Allen Edwards <
allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:26 AM, David Smiley <dsmiley at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a P4 at 2.8 GHz and I've been using it just fine with a Hauppage
> 250
> > card for nearly a year.  I just purchased a flat screen TV and an
> HDHomerun.
> > I got the HDHomerun to record a snipped of a high-def program for just 11
> > minutes (which was 1.26 GB !).  The playback is basically impossible;
> choppy
> > doesn't begin to describe it.  I suspect it's some sort of super high-res
> > MPEG2 format but I don't know how to get at info on my video files so I
> am
> > not certain.  An auto-transcode of this file brought it down to only 1.1
> GB
> > but that didn't help the playback (unsurprisingly).  In my playback
> > settings, I observed that there are various filters 'n such that apply
> > depending on the resolution.  I did some tinkering there on the higher
> > resolution stuff but haven't gotten success.  Can someone advise me on
> > things to try and/or how to go about troubleshooting playback of HDTV?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > ~ David
>


See -
here http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC
and
here - http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_HDTV

Mitchell
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20080717/a4c13cb4/attachment.htm 


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list