[mythtv-users] MythTV geared towards quality (DVI, SPDIF, etc)

[John Sturgeon]

If you're outputting HDTV you will need at least component cable 
output.  S-Video cannot ouput 1080i or 720p.  Jarod's guide is geared 
towards folks who go the VGA-> Component adapter route.

Shawn wrote:

>So, my question is then, when it comes to quality alone, is it better to
>capture with MPEG2 from hardware, or some frame grabber with mpeg4 with
>hq settings. I can use SPDIF audio then, too.
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>And, I don't know how Jarod's HDTV output guide translates to using a
>PVR350's output (methinks some sort of ivtv driver for X(org|Free86)?)
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>On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:23 -0700, John Sturgeon wrote:
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>>Shawn,
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>>You should get a capture card that does the encoding so that the CPU 
>>does not do the heavy lifting.  I'm using the HD-2000 (pcHDTV) so I 
>>can't speak to other capture cards, but there are plenty of cards that 
>>are available that do the encoding.  My CPU is an Athlon 2600+ and I am 
>>able to 'capture' (if you will) HDTV (1920x720p, 1920x1080i, etc...) 
>>with no problem at all.  In my case, the major bottlenecks would really 
>>be the disk drive and bus speeds.
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