I have an HDTV that I watch 80% of my tv on. Everything I watch is in HDTV. My other tvs are regular picture tube SDTV’s.

If I want to stream video to my other TV’s via a Front End, or a long video cable, will I have to do any transcoding to the HDTV recordings before I can watch them on the SDTV’s? Or will myth automatically adjust for that?

If I do need to transcode shows recorded in 1080i to 480i how long will that take? What about if I want to stream a live HDTV broadcast to an SDTV?


Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I have not seen it yet

If you have a frontend (powerful to playback HD) hooked up to an SDTV there is nothing you have to do. Define "long cable".

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cesman

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I was thinking of attaching a 50 ft. S-Video cable to my video card in addition to dvi

But wont it switch to 480i automatically when myth scans the output resolution?

huh? It will be display 16x9 on the screen with borders at the top and bottom. Stretch a 50 ft cable?! Sound like more trouble than it is worth (just my thoughts)....

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cesman

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Bottom line answer is you don't have to transcode. The computer connected to the SD television, however, will need to be fast enough to play back AND scale HD recordings down to whatever resolution you use (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768).

Note that most (all?) video cards with TV-out capability will want to output those standard computer-oriented resolutions to the TV-out circuitry (which itself then scales to 720x480i SD resolution).

Also note that I'm not sure you'd be able to display two different signals from that one TV, one going to your HDTV and a different one going via the long S-video cable to the other TV. Even if you don't mind them being the same signal, it's not as trivial as just connecting both up... you'll have to search the forum for "twinview" (I think) in order to get both your monitor and S-video output working together.

Thanks for the replys. I probably will just build a new FE instead of running a cable. I was planning on running my xbox as a FE on the sdtv, but i guess I bet that is probably out of the question