[mythtv-users] poor audio and video

[Michael T. Dean]

Thomas Baker wrote:

>I have two problems that may or may not be related, one with poor audio 
>and another with poor video.  I'm using Fedroa Core 4 64-bit and 
>everything runs beautifully in TvTime, however, when I play "live" tv in 
>MythTv, the audio only plays out of one speaker and the quality of the 
>sound is sub-par.  By this I mean there is a little bit of static and 
>frequent "pops".  I have played around a lot with alsamixer with the 
>levels, and to get this question out of the way, yes my line in is muted 
>and set as the capture.  I have set the volumes on "Master" and "PCM" to 
>around 75% to assure teh audio is not peaking out.  "Capture" is set to 
>0% (not mutable) because there is even more static and overall "tinny" 
>quallity when it is raised (still one speaker only).  "Wave" is turned 
>up as well as the "AC97 Capture" is turned up (not sure why these in 
>particular, but with experimentation, I don't get any of the recorded 
>audio without them).  As for the video, the overall picture quality is 
>poor.  excluding the brightness, contrast, colour and hue, the picutre 
>has a lot of thin horizontal lines in it.  It seems like once MythTV 
>takes in the captured media, it just butchers the quality.  These right 
>now are my two biggest problems and would appreciate any help I can get 
>with this. 
>  
>
If you want anyone to attempt to answer your question, telling them what 
capture card and audio card you're using would make it much easier.

Mike