On 06/07/2005, at 2:11 PM, Peter Schachte wrote:
1. How is the S-video out quality? I plan to plug into a
decent
standard def wide-screen TV (Loewe Xelos); how much quality
will I lose relative to using the TV's component input?
The quality is very good, crisp with good colour fidelity. The
noscale video patch from Terry Barnaby (http://
www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/fc3/) is probably a big factor in
the crispness of the picture.
2. How good is the S/P DIF sound when run into a reasonably
good
stereo system (Yamaha reciever, Klipsch speakers)?
I'm no audiophile, but both AC3 and DTS (for DVD's) works fine via
the coax connection. I listen to a lot of music via the myth box and
am very happy with the quality.
3. I understand the Epia is underpowered for transcoding and
commercial flagging. I'd like to do both of these. How many
minutes of TV could I transcode and commercial flag per hour?
I don't mind letting the machine do this overnight, if I can
handle 3 or 4 hours of recording per day.
It is fairly low powered, but after some experimenting, I have been
able to get mplayer to transcode at 5-6fps from DVB TS recordings to
mpeg4 with most of the key quality settings turned on. mplayer +
ffmpeg's mpeg4 is far faster for this than xvid, which I was unable
to get more than 2 fps from.
This is fast enough to transcode a couple of shows overnight and
works fine for my archiving needs. Four hours of video would take
about 20 hours though, which may or may not be adequate (the system
works fine while running a transcode in the background at nice 19).
Matthew.
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