<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:55 AM, William <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william_munson@comcast.net">william_munson@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 06/06/2009 05:43 PM, Z F wrote:<br>
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Hello everybody,<br>
<br>
I have the following problem which I thought should have been discussed<br>
already, but maybe I am using the right keywords for the search.<br>
<br>
My situation is that one of my frontends is relatively low power machine<br>
and can display standard definition resolution.<br>
<br>
I am looking for a way to "ask" the backend which supplies the video<br>
to down convert it from HD content so that it can be displayed on that particular frontend. My understanding is that MythStream can do something like this, but<br>
I do not understand how to configure MythTV frontend to use this service.<br>
It seems that it is designed for other purposes. I did not find any switches<br>
on the frontend configuration to achieve this.<br>
<br>
Can someone comment on this?<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot<br>
<br>
ZF<br>
<br>
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My suggestion for that underpowered machine is to purchase a nVidia 8400 or higher graphics card and use one of the VDPAU enabled versions of mythtv. It will play fine with your other systems and will let you play full HD with only a ~5% cpu load. Myth will automatically downscale the HD programming to fit your screen resolution so it will have the same effect as trying to set up mythstream to do the work for you. Its my understanding that mythstream cpu usage to real-time convert a video would be fairly high, perhaps higher than your cpu can support.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div>I've had a similar thought, but if the OP is anything like me, the "underpowered" machine either doesn't want to spend $50 upgrading an old machine, or don't have the ability to upgrade the graphics support. <br>
<br>Is there a way to use mythexport to achieve something similar where you could have myth down-convert and save a duplicate version of the video file in a seperate recording group and add it to the database as well. Just not try to do it live. Basically create a user job that downconverts and adds it back to the database so I can add that user job to the shows that I will most likely want to watch on SD capable machine. Only downside is the diskspace on your backend.<br>