[mythtvnz] Freeview in SD?

[Steve Hodge]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Jason Haar
<jhaar-ourshack-com at whanau.org>wrote:

> Wondering out loud, could I transcode HD content down to MPEG2 (my
> backend is Intel dual core) - so that it would play nicely on the weak
> frontend? Could I possibly even do it "lossless"? i.e. take a 2G HD
> program and convert it into a 30G MPEG2 version? Backend disk is cheaper
> than below-TV real estate ;-)
>

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.

Cheers,
Steve
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