[mythtv-users] Video Quality

[Shay - MythTV]

Don't think it matters, but I do have digital cable... but the channels I'm 
usually recording are analog..  you're probably doing the same and just 
didn't realize it.

At 03:54 PM 3/12/2004, you wrote:
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>I've got the jittery motion problem with a PVR-250 too. Just out of
>curiosity, how many of us that have this problem have digital cable? I
>_believe_ the cable co here encodes the digital channels to MPEG2 (I've
>got a dct2224) so is this just a consequence of encoding the same signal
>x2? Just guessing here...
>
>Chris Teachworth
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Shay - MythTV
> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:37 AM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Quality
> >
> > At 07:52 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
> > >Tor Hovland wrote:
> > >
> > >>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.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >It's possible the problem lies on the output side of things and not
> > really
> > >capture related at all.  My wife once said "it's like watching tv on
>the
> > >computer but it's on tv" which was her way of saying it didn't look
> > >natural...  Lots of tweaking later and she's one happy camper.  In
>fact
> > >during A/B comparisons she preferred Myth's output to the Tivos.
> > >_______________________________________________
> >
> > I believe that I'm getting the same quality as Tor, and I can honestly
>say
> > its not the output.  If I watch a DivX movie, the quality is superb.
> >
> > -Shay
> >
> >
> >
>
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