[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback quality poll

[John Kuhn]

i've been thru a bunch of hardware configurations..

the tv-out from my Averkey 300gold (scan convertor said to be the 
"best")was horrible, dark, blurry.. and studdered on fast motion

i then bought a PNY MX400 said be the best in tv-out.. it was better but 
not great still blurry and studdering..
even when viewing tv on my monitor thru this card it didnt look that 
great.. not horrible.. but not as crisp as it should

lastly i used the Tv-out from my pvr350... its perfect.. crystal clear 
images and video.. and no studdering.. even on tickers..

I then started kicking myself for not using the 350's tv out in the 
first place..

--John
www.mythtv.info

resoli at tiscali.it wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>After a lot of trial and errors I finally have a working mythtv 0.15.1 
>splitted frontend-backend setup.
>
>Nevertheless, I am quite disappointed about the quality of what i see on
>my
>old 25" Sony Trinitron: standard tv looks a lot better, firstly in terms
>of image crispness
>and then of motion fluidity (ther is no evidence of frame dropping, anyway).
>
>Hardware:
>My frontend is an EPIA-M 10K (hw decoding enabled), backend is a Celeron
>1GHz with 
>PVR-250 tuner-encoder. 100MB full-duplex ethernet in between. Im using the
>EPIA s-video tv out.
>
>Software:
>I am running epia-sources-2.4.25-r2 kernel and xfree-unichrome-4.4.0-r16
>from epia.kalf.org
>and libddmpeg-1.6.
>
>I capture  720x576 mpeg2 @ 4500/6000 (I tried also at higher bitrates).
>At this resolution
>and bitrate mythtv software playback cannot keep up on my EPIA (thanks Jelle
>for pointing
>this out), so I am forced to use hw-decoding.
>
>Here some thoughts about this:
>1) I was initially suspecting the quality of EPIA tv out, but DVD playback
>via xine looks good,
>and using a standard pc monitor does not change quality substantially (xine
>dvd playback
>is spectacular on a standard pc montor).
>
>2) Is a hw decoding lacks of quality problem?
>
>3) Using hw decoding, playback is mirrored on standard console (making it
>unusable), is it normal
>behaviour or something wrong in my setup?  
>
>
>Is someoune  achieving a mythtv playback substantially not distinguishable
>from standard 
>tv broadcast with hardware similar to mine? 
>
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