[mythtv-users] Having problems / Need info on BOB Deinterlacing

[David Watkins]

On 01/06/06, James Buckley <james at logicland.co.uk> wrote:
> In the USA lots of people are watching HD cable; surely the same will come
> to England (over-the-air). But anyway, I'll see when HD stables out in the
> UK

I'm sure it will.  The difference is that in the US they use MPEG2
decoding which uses more bandwidth and disk space, but is relatively
easy to decode in real time.

Europe appears to be standardising on H.264 compression [and a late
implemenation of it at that] which, as has been said, is beyond the
ability of most PC hardware to decode in real time.

As a data-point, my AMD 64 3000 (2.2GGHz I think) running XP and using
a trial version of the Elecard player manages about 15 fps without
deinterlacing.  I haven't found a linux solution yet but would really
expect it to offer better performance.

As has already been mentioned on this list, one solution might be to
transcode from H.264 to MPEG2 in non-real time  However I haven't
found a way of doing this yet either.  Like I said, it's for
enthusiasts only.