[mythtv-users] What to do with playing HD on 'normal' TV?

[Robert Tsai]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:27:44AM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> And, when you factor in the hours it will take to transcode each
> video, you might be better off--as long as you're not severely
> lacking in CPU--paying the $20-$40 for a 5200 for each frontend...

I think you *might* be overstating the time cost of transcoding. My
Athlon64 3500+, running at the slowest 1.0GHz speed, can run a "Medium
CPU Usage" mythtranscode (e.g., nice +19) in about half-real-time
(e.g., 2 hours to transcode a 1-hr recording). Obviously this depends
on your backend CPU, and/or if you insist on some "higher-quality"
transcode using something besides mythtranscode. But mythtranscode
works good enough for me. My settings are at
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Rtsai1111

All I'm saying is that this might help you avoid buying all those
fancy frontend video cards, if transcoding is what you think is
stopping you ...

--Rob
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