<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23/08/2008, at 1:30 PM, Nick Rout wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Aaron Whitehouse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@whitehouse.org.nz">lists@whitehouse.org.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Steve,<br> <br> This may be a really silly question, but with the new Bravias<br> including HD tuners (that presumably decode the H264 stream in<br> hardware), is there any way of passing an encoded stream to the TV and<br> let it do the decoding?</blockquote><div><br>Not unless you encode into a DVB-T stream and broadcast it to the TV. I am not aware of any method to bypass the tuner.<br></div></div></div><br></blockquote><br></div><div>I'm with Nick.. Sadly no known way at present to pass the H.264 signal straight to the TV.</div><div><br></div><div>Intel made some interesting announcements at the IDF about new TV based multimedia technology that might allow this. Basically you could build a Myth Frontend widget that runs within the TV. Sadly it will be a while before this technology becomes mainstream.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>