[mythtv-users] Video Quality

[Bryan Murphy]

What kind of video card do you have?  I tried a couple different NVIDIA 
cards
and the TV out quality was terrible.  I upgraded to a PVR-350, started 
using it's
TV out and now the recorded stuff is indistinquishable from the signal 
direct from
my TV box!! 

Everything looks fantastic now.  I was watching Blade Runner DVD the other
day (output to the ivtvdev framebuffer, not the decoder) and it also 
looked as
good as the DVD player.

I haven't seen any Matrox or ATI TV out, but the NVIDIA TV out sucks.  With
the PVR-350 I am now a very satisfied customer.

Bryan

>> Rest assured that you are not alone. Having spent the last week 
>> setting up
>> my own Myth box, I have eventually ironed out just about all problems 
>> (the
>> whole thing was very unstable with the stock gentoo sources, but 
>> following
>> the advice of switching to vanilla sources certainly solved it). The 
>> picture
>> is very good and I'm quite happy with the system now. However, I can 
>> still
>> feel (yeah, that's the term that describes it best) the difference 
>> between
>> analog and Myth/PVR-250, simply because the analog video is much 
>> smoother.
>> It seems to me that the capture frame rate is just a little too low, and
>> when contrasting things move quickly you can actually see how they 
>> jump from
>> one discrete position to the next, i.e. not the virtually continuous
>> movement that we expect from live tv.
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