[mythtv-users] xawtv/myth video quality

[Eric S]

The video in xawtv is straight off the card, think 640x480 (interlaced) 
24bit per pixel, 30 fps . . . lots and lots of bandwidth.  To get the 
video on the hard drive it has to be encoded real time either by 
software or hardware down to a reasonable data rate  . . . the video 
you see in Myth is actually playback of the compressed stream.

If you want best quality, push your resolution up to full 720x480 
resolution (NTSC) and increase your bit rate.  This may take a lot of 
processing power and will definetely take lots of disk space, DVD's are 
recorded at 3-4 GB/hour and full 1080i HDTV MPEG2 stream will be up 
near 9GB/hour.


On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 07:01 PM, Anthony Ko wrote:

> I have just got my mythtv set up, but have noticed that the video 
> quality on xawtv is much better than what shows up on myth.  How do I 
> configure myth to be more similar to xawtv? Are there quality setting 
> that I am missing?
>
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