[mythtvnz] Idle Query - what resolution is Prime on Freeview HD?

[Jonathan Hoskin]

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>
> One easy way to find out is to play it live - or play a recording in VLC -
> which will play it at its native resolution for any
> particular recording.  Its file information will give detailed and perhaps
> helpful codec information for both video and audio.
>
> I am not sure if mplayer does this so easily.
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> I do not know however the different programs might be at different
> resolutions, although the bandwidth may not be there to support
> more than 576i.
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> My observations of DVB-T Prime ("HD" is likely misleading in the title -
> but then I am not sure you will find an official source
> that expresses it that way?) is its quality is superior to SD Prime
> analogue, however analogue Prime was always inferior to TV3
> (which was for me always the best analogue quality).
>
>
Just for the record, I just ran some DVB-T Prime samples in VLC. Even though
I agree it isn't actually HD, it does have a fairly decent bitrate ( ~
3000kb/s ) given the codec and resolution.

Certainly helps with disk space compared to TV3 recordings.

Jonathan
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