[mythtv-users] How to transcode to SD within mythtv - system too slow to play HD

[Raymond Wagner]

On 12/09/13 21:12, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Raymond Wagner" <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> 
>>>> On 12/9/2013 8:40 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> But most cable providers still do offer an SD version of each HD
>>> channel. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone I know of
>>> personally that actually uses an antenna.
>>
>> Most cable providers off an SD version of the HD channels for use on
>> their mini-boxes. If they have a waiver to encrypt content for the
>> mini-boxes, those SD channels will not be available for use in MythTV.
>> Further, cable companies are not required to leave even the broadcast
>> HD channels unencrypted, leaving many MythTV users with exactly nothing
>> available over clear QAM.
> 
> Yes, but it's likely that John (I think I snipped the attribs right there) 
> was talking about people -- and there are many Just Like Us -- who are
> still tuning *analog* from a cableco.  We, too, get downconverted SD analog
> from the center 4:3 of the signal -- which is why many producers still 
> protect for it.
> 
> And yes, those downconverters are often really stupid about incoming
> pillarboxed 4:3 pictures in the 16:9 signals they receive, leaving us 
> with *dual-letterboxed* pictures.

My (former) cableco hasn't offered analog service in several years.