[mythtv-users] What's easier to convert/decode? 720p or 1080i?

[Art Morales]

That would be a great feature.  I agree that the TV will probably be
more efficient at the conversion and/or the quality culd be better.  I
have no idea if Myth can do the switching...  But I would assume it
should not be that dificult to implement...  (maybe a pain to
configure for each individual users' TV since the modelines are tricky
enough... (Though you could have entries in the settings for each
modeline and be able to switch the functionality on through an option.

Art


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:22:45 -0500, Andrew Gallatin
<gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> Joe Barnhart [joebarnhart at yahoo.com] wrote:
> >  I know that 720p content looks pretty marginal at
> > times on my set, and I think it is because the nvidia
> > video card (and its driver) does the scaling and does
> > a poor job of it.
> 
> Is myth currently able to automatically switch the video mode via xrandr?
> Eg, if it sees 1080i content, it switches to 1080i, and if it sees
> 720p content, it switches to 720p?
> 
> Assuming you have a TV which can handle both modes, and assuming that
> the TV does a better job of deinterlacing 1080i -> 720p than your
> computer, wouldn't it make sense to send the material to the TV in the
> content's native format if possible?
> 
> Drew
> 
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