Hi Steve,
Thanks for your response.
Have a look on ebay using the search "HDCP HDMI to Component Audio Video Converter Transcoder". Says can de-crypt HDCP encrypted streams. Will have to see how long this works with Sky HD if its popularity goes up!
AFAIK, flagging doesn't work with DIVX/XVID, .H264 and the modern codecs. This is why HDTV captures by SD XVID boxes (which you'll find on the web) are 555x312 and strange resolutions like that. They have to reflect the aspect in the frame-size itself. Players will not reliably 'respect' the aspect flag for these streams. Similarly, if you asked Nero to encode a widescreen DVD to H.264, it will scale the frame-size itself. In the Mpeg-2 world, they used PAL/NTSC 4:3 resolutions, but then used the flag to indicate WS.
Anyway, nowadays, they broadcast a lot of SD channels in WS aspect. When I captured them using the Hauppauge USB2 PVR in Mpeg-2, I could post-process the WS flag into the stream without re-encoding.
I intend to use the HDPVR equally often for recording SD channels (HD channels are still few). For this use, the re-scaling to WS aspect on-the-fly is quite crucial. As a device, the USB2 PVR Mpeg-2 could never display or encode WS natively. But, this is not the case with the HDPVR, as it obviously handles the WS aspect of HD sources. It can also choose resolutions. So, maybe there would be a way to tell it to choose a 720x405 resolution for SD sources? Just thinking.
Oh, no, that I'm using. I just used 'composite' to mean old 'analog SD'...
Regards,
Tatha
Thanks for your response.
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I'd love to hear how this works, as would many other people. Do you have an URL for that specific converter?
I'd love to hear how this works, as would many other people. Do you have an URL for that specific converter?
Have a look on ebay using the search "HDCP HDMI to Component Audio Video Converter Transcoder". Says can de-crypt HDCP encrypted streams. Will have to see how long this works with Sky HD if its popularity goes up!
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I don't think this is possible. That being said I'll email a couple of other people in the UK and find out if they see this issue also. I'm wondering if I can flag (even if it's a manual process) WSS in the recording. I'll have to look into the spec.
I don't think this is possible. That being said I'll email a couple of other people in the UK and find out if they see this issue also. I'm wondering if I can flag (even if it's a manual process) WSS in the recording. I'll have to look into the spec.
AFAIK, flagging doesn't work with DIVX/XVID, .H264 and the modern codecs. This is why HDTV captures by SD XVID boxes (which you'll find on the web) are 555x312 and strange resolutions like that. They have to reflect the aspect in the frame-size itself. Players will not reliably 'respect' the aspect flag for these streams. Similarly, if you asked Nero to encode a widescreen DVD to H.264, it will scale the frame-size itself. In the Mpeg-2 world, they used PAL/NTSC 4:3 resolutions, but then used the flag to indicate WS.
Anyway, nowadays, they broadcast a lot of SD channels in WS aspect. When I captured them using the Hauppauge USB2 PVR in Mpeg-2, I could post-process the WS flag into the stream without re-encoding.
I intend to use the HDPVR equally often for recording SD channels (HD channels are still few). For this use, the re-scaling to WS aspect on-the-fly is quite crucial. As a device, the USB2 PVR Mpeg-2 could never display or encode WS natively. But, this is not the case with the HDPVR, as it obviously handles the WS aspect of HD sources. It can also choose resolutions. So, maybe there would be a way to tell it to choose a 720x405 resolution for SD sources? Just thinking.
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Eeek, you also might want to switch away from composite inputs and use svideo for SD content, you'll be much happier with the video quality.
Eeek, you also might want to switch away from composite inputs and use svideo for SD content, you'll be much happier with the video quality.
Oh, no, that I'm using. I just used 'composite' to mean old 'analog SD'...

Regards,
Tatha













