[mythtv-users] Upscaling standalone DVD vs. MythTV

[Boleslaw Ciesielski]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Scaling is (for all practical purposes) free--no additional load on your 
> system--if you have Xv support...  So, the only load on the system is 
> the load involved in playing back MPEG-2 at up to 720x{480,576}@60fps 
> which isn't much of a load on modern processors.

Yes, but this is only fairly primitive scaling. To compete with hardware 
scalers in high-end DVD players, TVs or receivers one has to employ 
fancy software scaling algorithms which are much more CPU intensive.

Bolek