[mythtv-users] hdhr3-us h.264

George Nassas gnassas at mac.com
Thu Jan 10 02:39:36 UTC 2013


On 2013-01-09, at 1:13 AM, Evuraan wrote:

> curious about what makes broadcasters chose h.264 instead of mpeg2?
> shinier, newer gear?

h.264 gives equivalent quality using perhaps half the bitrate as mpeg2 so a broadcaster can squeeze twice as many channels onto a given amount of bandwidth.

- George



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