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The MPEG-4 formats are only used for the BBC HD tests. Depending where
you are in the UK, it might be up to 5 years before HD is available in
your area (Anglia region is last... guess where I am).<br>
All SD Freeview broadcasts are MPEG-2 720x576. <br>
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I'm running a Nova-T and an ASUS 7131/Tiger (£8 from Ebay, including
USB remote!) in my remote backend.<br>
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Richard<br>
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From: Damian Surr <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.com"><damian@gingermagic.com></a><br>
To: Discussion about mythtv <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><mythtv-users@mythtv.org></a><br>
Subject: Re:[mythtv-users] Where to start?<br>
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 13:03:27 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Jan 9, 2007, at 5:28 AM, Damian Surr wrote:
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<pre wrap="">As I said, ATI cards *can* be used, but with that CPU you will need
XvMC for any HD programming and maybe even for SD if you want to de-
interlace and/or commflag at the same time. I'm not sure what
resolutions are presently being used in the UK.
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<pre wrap=""> think 720x576 is that standard for PAL
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<pre wrap="">For PAL analog(ue) yes, but I don't know what they are doing with
digital over there.
I think I saw something on this list about the BBC experimenting with
MPEG-4 variants. That would take more CPU to decode and you can't get
any help from XvMC, which only helps with MPEG-2.
So you may ultimately want to get a faster CPU.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yea, that would screw things up!
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