[mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:08:21PM +1000, David Whyte wrote:
> LOL...Doh!
> 
> For a man of so few words, Isaac can be quite funny.
> 
> Anyone care to help me out here???
> 
> Dave
> 

HDTV comes as pre-compresed MP2.  To turn it into something else like
mp4 requires a highly CPU-intensive transcoding, something consumer
hardware could not do in real time, and even if it could, Mythtv doesn't
do that.

You can record your mp2s from your dvb.

I just wrote up an article to talk a bit about HDTV transmission and
the common misperception that we often hear, with people expecting it to
act like analog TV.

www.templetons.com/brad/myth/hdtv.html

It's not quite finished yet, but what it says about atsc relates to dvb
too.