[mythtv-users] Upscaling standalone DVD vs. MythTV

Bill Chmura Bill at Explosivo.com
Fri Feb 16 16:36:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:29:22 +0000
David Campbell <dave at cpfc.org> wrote:

> Bill Chmura wrote:
> > Another thing to consider is the load on your box.  Right now I am forced to use my back-end as my front-end also - which has three tuners.  If I up-scaled a DVD it could put an unnecessary load on the box and cause who knows what kind of problems it could cause with recordings and such.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong but there isn't any upscaling going on in 
> MythDVD - it's just squirting out MPEG 2 as is.
> 
> Or am I missing something subtle here?
> 

I was not sure, but someone previously posted that if you use the internal player it did...

Or maybe I misunderstood...   :)





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