<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Since you have an HD and an SD TV set, do you plan to transcode HD<br>
recordings to SD for use with the SD set? Do you plan to transcode on the<br>
fly, or store two copies of each recording? or perhaps use a frontend that<br>
can accept HD files and display them as SD?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> That's a good question. I was thinking of keeping everything HD so that programs could be played on either TV, then sending them to the SD set via svideo or somesuch (doesn't require re-transcoding, does it?).</div>
<div><br></div><div> The input would be from over-the-air HD, so the B/E wouldn't need to do transcoding there either, if I have the right kind of DVB card, right?</div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
It sounds to me like you are thinking of piling too much into one machine,<br>
but if you can make it work, more power to you.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> That's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for -- I don't want to try to do something that is not likely to work.</div><div>
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Depending on your physical layout, I would think having a B/E and two F/Es<br>
in one machine would result in a lot of cabling around the house.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Currently, I have a Dish DVR that is set up to do this same thing. It's a model from 3 years ago, and the cabling is already strung. I figured that if Disk could make a piece of low-cost hardware that handled this for SD 3/4 years ago, I could probably do the same myself with HD-over-the-air with newer hardware, but I'm out of the loop as to whether anyone else does this with Myth right now.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Personally, I'd love if I could spend about the same amount as a Dish HD DVR (~$500) and just buy a Myth box that could do this without all the fiddling. But building looks like a lot of fun, it's just the unknowns of "will it actually work" that is making me cautious.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Oh, one other thing -- I'd like this box to be able to serve up hulu content to either of the TVs too. I'm sure that ups the ante with regard to cpu.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>
J2</div></div>