[mythtv-users] Myth playback quality

D Banerjee davatar at comcast.net
Sat Oct 18 19:42:55 EDT 2003


I'm pretty sure what you're experiencing is interlaced video, go to playback
options and check "deinterlace video"

Debabrata

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtvusers.x.kyanos at spamgourmet.org>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Myth playback quality


> I've become very fond of Myth since I started using it, and I would
> like to use it full time (not even bother with the VCR as a backup).
> One of the things preventing me from doing so is the playback quality
> from within the Myth viewer.  It's pretty good (I have a PVR-250), but
> it blurs on fast-moving objects.  It also looks weird on animated things
> (like a cartoon mouth) where it jumps between two positions.
>
>  If I go track down the actual .nuv file and play it using mplayer,
> those quality issues go away, so I know it's not the file itself.  I've
> got all the quality settings I could find in myth cranked way up but it's
still
> happening.  Any suggestions?
>
>  Oh, and is there some combination of settings to use with
> PVR-250-generated files to get commercial skip more reliable?  It seems
> to work fine for the first 30 minutes of a show then thinks the next
> commercial is the end credits.  I've tried changing the settings but
> haven't found one that works any better.
>
>  Thanks all!
>
>
> --
> Chris Witham <mythtvusers.x.kyanos at spamgourmet.org>
> Computer Engineer and Geek
> Fan of video games, anime, and the outdoors
> Creator of the original Bitch of Fate
>
> Today's inspirational saying from despair.com:
>
> Bitterness:  Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world,
>              because there's nothing the world loves more than
>              the taste of really sweet dreams.
>


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