[mythtv-users] Success with XvMC and interlacing (SD)

[Jesse Guardiani]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 5:57 pm, Cymen Vig wrote:
> I've noticed a number of posts discussing XvMC and interlacing. I'm
> running MythTV SVN from  sometime before .19 was released (I don't
> happen to know the SVN number -- anyone know of a way of telling from
> the install/binaries?).
> 
> Until recently, I was happy with MythTV but I wasn't blown away with
> the picture quality and assumed it was due to my hardware. This all
> changed when 1) I enabled interlacing in X and switched the screen
> resolution to 720x480 (from 640x480), 2) and started using the -ck2
> kernel patch.
> 
> 
> 1) Enabling Interlacing
> 
> I used "cvt" to find a nice interlaced ModeLine to use with my Nvidia
> GeForce4 MX 440 (with AGP8X using Nvidia AGP).
> 
> ModeLine:
> Modeline "720x480_60.00i"  13.50  720 744 808 896  480 483 493 496 
> Interlace  +HSync +Vsync


Hmmm... I was under the impression that the TV-OUT on my nvidia FX 5200
was interlaced by default. I'm not using TV-OUT anymore, but I wonder
if it would have helped. Have you seen the TV-OUT quality of a PVR 350?
How does it compare?


-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net