[mythtv-users] High end, state of the art Myth Frontend

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Sep 18 20:42:41 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> Theoretically,
> compressing a 1080p/60 video would use twice the bandwidth of
> compressing a 1080i/60 video at the same level of quality.

The comparison is between compressing a 1080p60 video using MPEG2
bitrate x, and compressing the same video first by throwing out half
the pixels and then using MPEG2 at the same bitrate.

Your statement is that it will look better if you only feed half the
information into the MPEG2 algorithm.

If this is true, MPEG2 is completely braindead.

Eric


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