[mythtv-users] Myth playback quality

Jim Chandler jim at chandler.net
Sat Oct 18 18:28:16 EDT 2003


What video card do you have?  I tried using the SiS video controller on my
Shuttle computer and saw the same thing.  Put a nvidia MX 440 video card
in and that made all the difference.

Jim

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:02:16 -0400
Chris <mythtvusers.x.kyanos at spamgourmet.org> wrote:

>  I've become very fond of Myth since I started using it, and I would
> like to use it full time (not even bother with the VCR as a backup).
> One of the things preventing me from doing so is the playback quality
> from within the Myth viewer.  It's pretty good (I have a PVR-250), but
> it blurs on fast-moving objects.  It also looks weird on animated things
> (like a cartoon mouth) where it jumps between two positions.
> 
>  If I go track down the actual .nuv file and play it using mplayer,
> those quality issues go away, so I know it's not the file itself.  I've
> got all the quality settings I could find in myth cranked way up but
> it's still happening.  Any suggestions?
> 
>  Oh, and is there some combination of settings to use with
> PVR-250-generated files to get commercial skip more reliable?  It seems
> to work fine for the first 30 minutes of a show then thinks the next
> commercial is the end credits.  I've tried changing the settings but
> haven't found one that works any better.
> 
>  Thanks all!
> 
> 
> -- 
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