[kwlug-disc] Home made indoor TV Antenna

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Interesting. Thanks.

Good point - whether not present, or auto-skipped is probably largely 
user transparent. And if you're not actually going to keep things 
(years), no real need to take the chance of glitch.

Wi-Fi. Ick. (Android/tablets, OK, but I still don't see the point. Mind 
you, perhaps that's my age / current use case and I'm behind the times. 
TV is for sitting down and consuming, putting all else to the side for 
the duration. I gather though, with news blurbs throughout the day and 
so much youtube content, 'TV' is no longer 'merely' couch surfing. I 
suppose today TV = family time is a pipe dream.)

I suppose, to your point, if suitable to your setup, post-recording 
followup could transcode to your DLNA box from which your viewers drink.

- I take your point on the hw encoding - it's why the Haupauge NTSC 
tuners were popular. <'defunct'> <sad>

Seems we're going backwards on all this stuff again, per HomeRun diagram 
in your link. Blu-Ray, DLNA, ATSC, net ... we're losing the one-stop 
shopping TV remote - aggregate all content to a point of point and play. 
<sigh>

In the end, do we not want all content aggregating (if only virtually) 
to Myth, and only Myth feeding the TV/receiver? (Or XBMC - either 
XBMC->Myth or Myth->XBMC?)

On 14-06-12 01:14 PM, Paul Gallaway wrote:
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> ATSC recordings are just dumps of the digital transmission (MPEG2) to
> disk so size depends on the data rate of the transmitter which can
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> ... MythTV
> does do commercial detection but by default it does not modify the
> recording. You can't cut the commercials without some form of
> transcoding which increases my power usage (lossless transcoding is
> relatively low processor intensity as it just trims the file of the
> excess data but it hasn't worked consistently in the last couple
> revisions), and it's risky without first reviewing the proposed cuts
> because it's not perfect. Any PVR will generally give you a 30 second
> jump key to miss 95% of the commercial content. MythTV will
> automatically skip 99% of commercials and allow you to return to the
> jump point when it messes it up.
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> The data rates used for ATSC MPEG2 recordings are generally not good
> for transmitting over home wireless networks. ...