My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better question is - which takes more power
Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 or Outputing at 720p or 1080i On 5/9/05, Joshua M. Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:19 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: > > I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My > > frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, > > I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to > > analog TV. > > > > Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on > > an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? > > > > Any gotachs/magic incantations/etc I need to do at the backend so the > > transition from the HD recorded(or live) plays fine on analong > > frontend ? > > I have that exact setup at my house. My main frontend downstairs is a P4 > 3.06 that is also the master backend, and has a ivtv card connected to > my Dish receiver for watching satellite channels. It is connected with > svideo+spdif to my AV receiver and TV. Upstairs I have another > front/backend combo with the pcHDTV in it that records OTA HDTV using my > attic antenna (though sadly it's not fast enough to watch HD). Even on > my 10 year old trinitron TV the HDTV recordings are still very > noticeably better than anything I ever got even directly off my sat > receiver, let alone through the capture card. > > I often sit in my home office and watch the HDTV recordings on my Linux > workstation, because once you've watched real HD it's hard to go back. > Hell even Family Guy looks better in HD! :) > > The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to > transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to > manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On > the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the > Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure > the video at all. :) > > -- > Joshua M. Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
