[mythtv-users] BBC HD Trial

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On May 17, 2006, at 15.13, Robert Johnston wrote:

>> If you can get a codec that supports interlaced H.264, then sure.
>> You'd lose some quality in the transfer, but if you set your bitrate
>> high enough, you shouldn't notice. The biggest problem should be
>> getting that codec, which doesn't seem to be as easy as you make it
>> out to be.
>
> If you're using x86, you can use a Windows codec that supports
> Interlacing. However, all these are pay-for versions. And those have
> very high system requirements for playback.

And that is the big problem. What about Apple's H.264 codec? It's not  
the greatest, and it's not open sourced, but there's an x86/32-bit  
version of it, you don't have to pay for it, and I think you can do  
1080p with it if you have a dual-core 2.0 GHz CPU.
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