<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Jason Haar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhaar-ourshack-com@whanau.org">jhaar-ourshack-com@whanau.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Wondering out loud, could I transcode HD content down to MPEG2 (my<br>
backend is Intel dual core) - so that it would play nicely on the weak<br>
frontend? Could I possibly even do it "lossless"? i.e. take a 2G HD<br>
program and convert it into a 30G MPEG2 version? Backend disk is cheaper<br>
than below-TV real estate ;-)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Sure can. It won't be lossless - both codecs are lossy so any transcoding must reduce the quality, though it's likely you wouldn't be able to tell the difference if you pick the right bitrate for the mpeg2 version.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>