[mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

Brad Templeton brad+myth at templetons.com
Sun Mar 6 21:02:55 UTC 2005


On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:59:10AM -0500, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote:
> Thanks for your response.  Does that mean that PIP is not feasible with,
> say, a P4 3.2GHz?

I remain curious as to why people want PiP when they have MythTV.  Many
people who use Myth stop watching live TV altogether, and I am amazed that
the desire would remain to watch _two_ live TVs.

But indeed, it might be a CPU problem since nobody has written yet a
"clever" mpeg decoder which knows it is decoding for a tiny size and thus
avoids the cpu load of decoding for full size and rescaling.

A number of people are interested in such a decoder, since it would allow
some people with older processors to watch HDTV recordings on their SDTVs.
Still SDTV, but a fair bit better than NTSC recording.

The EyeTV program for the Mac has such a clever decoder, so it is possible.



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