[mythtv-users] Downscaling HD Content on 480i

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Tue Jul 3 18:07:04 UTC 2007



David Schmidt wrote:
>> There is nothing about your CPU, memory, hard disk, sound card, or most any
>> other component that is causing this.  It is 100% the fault of the decoder
>> of the PVR-350 which cannot handle anything beyond the maximum resolution of
>> SDTV.
>>
>> --Patrick
>>
> 
> Well, of course the 350 can't hardware decode the HD stream, but
> presuming he has sufficient CPU/main memory, shouldn't Myth be able to
> treat the frame buffer as a "dumb" card and do software
> decoding/scaling for 480i display on the framebuffer?
> 
> I sure hope so, 'cause that was my plan once I get my HD tuners since
> I still have an SD set.
> 

Ditto, Patrick. I understand the limitations of the PVR-350: SD only. A new 
frontend *will* be built on the path to HD at this location. Until then, it 
sure seems that Myth should be able to downscale the HD frames and feed SD to 
the PVR-350.

Kirk Bocek



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