[mythtvnz] Freeview in SD?

[Wade Maxfield]

Jason Haar wrote:
> Wade Maxfield wrote:
>> The VIA MPEG2 acceleration only works for video up to around 1024x768 
>> from memory (or something similar - definitely not HD).  So you'd have 
>> to scale the frame size while transcoding. In which case it might be 
>> better to just record the SD version.
>>
> 
> ..except you can't? (as far as I know)
> 
> I mean, if you have a DVB-T card, then you can only receive HD - right?
> 
> I'm certainly under the impression I'd need a satellite dish and a DVB-S 
> card if I wanted "direct" SD digital.
> 
> Please tell me I'm wrong :-)
> 
> Jason
> 

Ahh. You never mentioned that you had a DVB-T card already.

I guess you're stuck with having to transcode to MPEG2 and a smaller 
frame size.  So you're probably going to be looking at 3GB/hr not 
30GB/hr if you want it to play back on the VIA.

You don't say if the VIA is your only frontend, or if the backend is a 
combined FE/BE. But I'd be looking at a DVB-S card in this case.  I 
think it would be better value for money (and time).
It will take some time for the transcoding to complete, during which you 
can't watch it on the VIA, and the time spent transcoding is time not 
spent comm flagging or playing back if it's a combined FE/BE.

  - Wade