[mythtv-users] tvout quality

[josephc]

I'm also using a GeForce FX 5200 but my TV-out is nothing short of 
spectacular. I have some black borders when watching live TV and 
recordings, but movies are sharp and fullscreen.



On Sun, 4 May 2003, MegaDeTH wrote:

> I'm using a FX 5200 TVOUT currently, but the quality is terrible, I'm 
> getting ghosting and simply poor quality.
> 
> The capture is excellent, using a PVR250, viewing the captured video on 
> pc's is excellent, lines around any motion, but there's no ghosting 
> whatsoever, everything is very clear, unlike the TV out quality.
> 
> The picture is also crunched on the left, but correct on the right, with 
> little-no tools for tweaking the newer nvidia cards.
> 
> I was thinking about an older geforce2 card better supported, or getting 
> a cheap matrox card.
> 
> I'm only using a TV on the system, current config is, Asus P2B-D dual 
> celron 400, 256mb ram, 80gb wd drive, with an FX5200 video card, and an 
> old diamond sound card.  It does near 100 % on one proc, very low on the 
> other (like 5 % with top running)  when playing livetv, opening up the 
> program guide takes a few sec, I'm going to try some 600mhz p2 chips so 
> I can deinterlace & it should speed up the menu's.
> 
> Currently using nvidia binary drivers, 24bit, 800x600, horizsync 30-50, 
> vertrefresh 60
> 
> any card sugestions would be welcome!
> 
> 
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