[mythtv-users] Record both HD and SD versions of shows

Nick Nobody me at nikosapi.org
Tue May 12 00:59:46 UTC 2009


On Monday 11 May 2009 20:31:13 Raymond Wagner wrote:
> Nick Nobody wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have both HD and non-HD capable frontends; would it be possible to make
> > MythTV record both versions of a show? Right now I've got to stick with
> > the lowest common denominator which is SD, but it would be nice if I
> > could get both.
>
> At the moment, no.  There was some talk of allowing multiple files on
> one recording instance, so you could transcode into lower resolutions
> for other devices, but nothing ever came of it.  In Canada, the best
> you're going to be able to record is MPEG2 at 19mbps, which is fairly
> trivial anymore.  You can put together an upgrade (motherboard w/ video,
> CPU, memory) that will have no trouble doing broadcast HD for ~$100.

How did you know I'm Canadian, eh? :P

I wish I could upgrade the non-HD frontends, but they're xboxes. Since it 
doesn't seem possible, I think I'll try whipping up a script to transcode some 
of the shows and then dump them onto a shared directory of a samba server.

Thanks for the info,

nick


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list