[mythtv-users] MythArchive output quality is poor for SD and HQ profiles

[Mike]

Leighton Brough wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>   
>> I'm guessing 'bug'. I have exactly the same results with mytharchive. 
>> I've tried lossless transcoding and everything. It just has an extremely 
>> bad picture unless I set my tuners to record at 720x480 and tell it not 
>> to re-encode it. It looks like what a 720x480 video file getting resized 
>> down to 320x180 then transcoding back up to 720x480 again.
>>     
> Sounds like the same issue. That's a good description of what I see.
>
> Leighton

Whats your ffmpeg version?

Mine is a custome compile. I tried 2, the version I was using before 
with mythburn before mytharchive. (which worked fine) And then I updated 
to the latest svn to try and resolve this issue.

FFmpeg version SVN-r6522, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration:  --enable-shared --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl 
--enable-faad --enable-vorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-faac 
--enable-xvid --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm 
--enable-x264 --enable-a52
  libavutil version: 49.0.1
  libavcodec version: 51.16.0
  libavformat version: 50.5.0
  built on Oct  2 2006 14:03:56, gcc: 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)


My Mythtv version is from 0.20-fixes revision
Revision: 11430
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: danielk
Last Changed Rev: 11426
Last Changed Date: 2006-10-04 09:53:22 -0700 (Wed, 04 Oct 2006)
Properties Last Updated: 2006-10-01 21:20:53 -0700 (Sun, 01 Oct 2006)


-Mike