[mythtv-users] HDTV Question

[Steven Adeff]

On 11/21/06, Michael Tiller <michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/20/06, Michael Tiller <michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 1) I assume MythTV has no trouble downscaling the HDTV content?
> >
> > yups, but that doesn't lower the playback requirements.
>
> Great.  I've got a 2.4 GHz CPU (can't remember the details).  Hopefully that
> will be enough.  I'm looking into XvMC right now too.

depends, but XvMC will more than help.


> > > 2) Keeping the HD recordings seems like a lot of space...what are my options
> > > for transcoding it?
> >
> > currently you can resize the video, but the audio gets converted as
> > well, kind of a pain if you want the AC3 audio.
>
> I don't care for now.  I just have a crappy NTSC TV (no surround sound).
> I've got XBMC running downstairs on a nice DLP projector but there I have
> the opposite problem (enough TV, not enough CPU :-).

then you can set up a transcode to 720x480.


-- 
Steve
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