[mythtv-users] Less than stellar video
Shawn
core at enodev.com
Fri Nov 12 23:47:38 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:15 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Ah, just thought of something else... He said it looks equally bad in xawtv,
> which means it is NOT the encoding process that makes the video look bad,
> since that's straight up raw video overlay.
I didn't catch that he was using the Aver. My mind defaulted to the
PVR-x50
> > > PVR 350's SVIDEO out is superior by far to NVIDIAs SVIDEO out.
>
> That has to be quantified though, and is also somewhat subjective. This
> statement only applies to TV. I have a 350, and while it is slightly better
> than nVidia SVideo out, it definitely isn't superior by far. Quality seems to
> vary quite a bit from one nVidia card to another, so I believe a good nVidia
> card is pretty close in quality to a 350, especially with the flicker filter
> stuff added in the 6xxx drivers. If you're concerned about anything else,
> like DVD rip playback, visualizations in MythMusic, etc., then the 350 sorta
> sucks. For me, the ever-so-slight sharpness improvement with the 350 isn't
> worth it over the other features an nVidia card provides. I have zero
> complaints about the output from any of my current nVidia cards.
I just know my GeForce FX 5200 is ugly on Svideo regardless the kernel
driver version.
> > > What you can be fairly confident of, though, is that it's mostly not the
> > > recording.
>
> My money is on another poor AVer tuner...
You changed my mind. ...and I'll never buy an Aver.
> > > This scared me at first when setting up myth with my PVR-250,
> > > until I got a HDTV and starting using Y Pr Pr off my SVGA from the video
> > > card. So far I could only find a modeline for 480p, but hey, it's
> > > alright.
>
> 480p is actually more optimal for playback of PVR-250 streams than any other
> HDTV mode anyhow. I watch all my standard-def stuff in my 480p mode, and only
> flip to 1080i for the high-def stuff.
Nice to know.
> > > I guess I would recommend getting the PVR-350. You can always use two
> > > tuners.
>
> I'd see what can be done to clean up the signal a bit first, since it may not
> be the output side of things at fault here. Remove any splitters, use quality
> cable, etc., see if it gets any better. Then look at a Hauppauge card (maybe
> a PVR-250 and keep using the FX for output if you plan to do much movie
> watching, PVR-350 and use its output if you only care about TV).
I would just really love it if HDMI could save us all some trouble, at
least with HDTV, though I doubt it will (that's just me being cynical).
I guess I don't even know how much does the HDMI standard encompasses...
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