[mythtv-users] Questionable capture quality from a PVR-250

[John Kuhn]

:) after playing around with the profiles and seeing the "livetv" one.. 
i adjusted everything out.. biggest size i could get it and 7000-7900 
max bitrate.. it did make it look somewhat better..

i use a Averkey300 Gold for tv out 
http://www.aver.com/products/comptv_AVerKey300gold.shtml

it works really well.. i reccomend it over any standard tv out.. i 
picked mine up off ebay for $30

i am thinking about using the PVR350's tv out to compare.. but DVD out 
and Divx playback seems flawless under my averkey..

John Kuhn

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2004, at 17:06, John Kuhn wrote:
>
>> you're not left out.. my 350 sure looks a lil blurry or degraded..  
>> like its recording the livetv at a lower bitrate then i would like..
>
>
> Are you using the 350's output, or something else?
>
>> what profile does livetv record from?
>
>
> The one ingeniously called "Live TV".
>
>> anyway to change it?
>
>
> In the Recording Profiles section of the frontend...
>
>> brentfisher at shaw.ca wrote:
>>
>>> I know that this has been touched on before but I still don't have 
>>> a  sense of where the problem lies based on the inconclusive 
>>> discussions  to date.
>>>
>>> The video that I capture is on my PVR-250 is of questionably 
>>> quality;  slightly fuzzy and washed out.  My symptoms are similar to 
>>> those that  Cory described a few days ago, refer to:
>>>
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/PVR 
>>> -250_slightly_fuzzy_picture_P104263/
>>>
>>> I have been chalking this up to the fact that MPEG-2 is a lossy  
>>> compression - I'm taking an analog signal, sampling it into a  
>>> compressed digital format - some degradation is expected.  But  
>>> increasing the sampling rate should then impove it, right?  This  
>>> doesn't seem to be the case.
>>
> [snip]
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