[mythtv-users] HD: desparate, grasping at straws

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/30/2006 01:12 PM, Greg Woods wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:01 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>On 05/30/2006 12:03 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 14:36 -0700, Marco Nelissen wrote:
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>>>>pick that resolution, and let mythtv scale and deinterlace as needed.
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>>>Can you actually do this and get a good picture? Sounds like it would be
>>>pretty CPU-intensive.
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>>If you've got Xv support (and you should for a Myth box), it's basically 
>>"free."  The video card does the scaling.
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>How does one go about this? I doubt if it's as simple as changing the
>playback resolution to 1920x1080. I think I recall seeing where you
>enable Xv in the mythtv-setup, I may have already done this.
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You just need Xv, not XvMC.  Xv is used automatically if your video 
driver supports it.

However, IIRC, Marco was suggesting you use 1024x768 (your TV's native 
resolution) and let your video card scale down from 1920x1080.  In other 
words, you don't need to use an "HDTV resolution".  Using the TV's 
native resolution makes a lot more sense.

Mike