[mythtv-users] Resolution

[Jim Paris]

> My goal is to use the lowest resolution and bitrate I can without noticing a 
> quality drop. For me and my dvd player, that happens to be MPEG2 1/2 D1, so I 
> use 352x240 at about 2500k bitrate. (Which also happens to be perfect for CVD 
> and DVD which my standalone player works great with.)

Why lower the resolution?  2500k is 2500k is 2500k no matter what the
resolution.  What's the point of 1/2 D1?  All that introduces is extra
scaling (scale down, encode, decode, scale up), so the only thing you
gain is encoding/decoding speed.

-jim