[mythtv-users] Xbox Front end and HDTV

Sean seanecovel at comcast.net
Mon Apr 19 21:00:58 EDT 2004


You should ask these questions on the Xbox-Linux news group.  There are 
a lot of MythTV users, and HDTV is not unique to MythTV.

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
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> On Monday 19 April 2004 13:40, Vincent K. Britton wrote:
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>>It is my understanding that with some tweaking you can run MythTV on an
>>Xbox with the HD AV Pack in 480p.
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> 
> I'll assume that is the case, though I don't really know.
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>>In this setup please answer these questions for me:
>>
>>1)       If I have a pchdtv capture card in my Back End server and
>>capture HDTV signals, will it recordings and Live TV display in HD on my
>>Television connected to my xbox hd av pack?
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> 
> I think it'll display. Just really, really, really, really, really badly. The 
> XBox has a 733MHz processor. The recommendation for optimal HD playback with 
> MythTV is a 3.0GHz HT P4.
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>>2)       Does PIP still work?
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> 
> No clue. I don't know why it wouldn't though. It should just be a modeline 
> difference to get the 480p setup working, which shouldn't impact PIP.
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> 
>>I also have some General HDTV Questions:
>>
>>1)       If you record a show in HD does it have to be viewed on an
>>HDTV?  Or if you view it on another television with S-Video does MythTV
>>automatically adjust the picture and audio or something?
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> 
> Dunno, never tried, but its just another video file being output to a display, 
> so I don't know why not (I can watch HD stuff on a monitor just fine). You 
> may have some cpu load issues doing the scaling, I'm not sure.
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> 
>>2)       Likewise if you have a HDTV does the content you watch have to
>>be HD or will Video captured on a PVR-250 Display as well?
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> 
> Video captured from a PVR-250 also displays just fine. I do that all the 
> time. ;-)
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> 
>>These are most likely the dumbest questions so far this year, maybe even
>>the decade.  But this all seems just to good to be true and I just would
>>like confirmation!
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> =)
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> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
> jcw at wilsonet.com
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