[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback quality poll

[Josh Burks]

Glad to help! Good Luck!

Josh Burks




resoli at tiscali.it wrote:
> Thank you Josh,
> I was too planning to buy a scan converter, (or building a VGA to RGB one,
> see my other post) but I wanted first get some opinions from people like
> you that already use similar things with mythtv.
> 
> Roberto
> 
>>-- Messaggio Originale --
>>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:59:09 -0500
>>From: Josh Burks <jburks at mktinsights.com>
>>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback quality poll
>>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>
>>
>>Sorry, I don't have similar hardware, but I had a similar quality 
>>complaint. I wasn't happy with the quality of liveTV or playback of 
>>recordings through s-video. It was hard to correct the interlacing 
>>problems, and small text (eg: a terminal or web browser) was nearly 
>>impossible to read.
>>
>>I picked up a VGA-to-Component video converter and I feed my TV a 
>>component signal straight from my onboard intel 810 video. It's hard to
> 
> 
>>distinguish between MythTV and straight cable through the TV tuner.
>>
>>Here's the link for my VGA converter:
>>http://www.smarthome.com/7743C.HTML
>>
>>There's also this one, which alot of MythTV users seem to be using:
>>http://www.smarthome.com/77706.HTML
>>
>>My System Specs:
>>1.7 GHz P4 on a MSI Micro-ATX Mobo
>>256 MB DDR
>>PVR-250 (with the crappy black remote)
>>Backend and Frontend on same machine.
>>
>>Josh Burks
>>
>>
>>resoli at tiscali.it wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>After a lot of trial and errors I finally have a working mythtv 0.15.1
>>
>>>splitted frontend-backend setup.
>>>
>>>Nevertheless, I am quite disappointed about the quality of what i see
> 
> on
> 
>>>my
>>>old 25" Sony Trinitron: standard tv looks a lot better, firstly in terms
>>>of image crispness
>>>and then of motion fluidity (ther is no evidence of frame dropping, anyway).
>>>
>>>Hardware:
>>>My frontend is an EPIA-M 10K (hw decoding enabled), backend is a Celeron
>>>1GHz with 
>>>PVR-250 tuner-encoder. 100MB full-duplex ethernet in between. Im using
>>
>>the
>>
>>>EPIA s-video tv out.
>>>
>>>Software:
>>>I am running epia-sources-2.4.25-r2 kernel and xfree-unichrome-4.4.0-r16
>>>from epia.kalf.org
>>>and libddmpeg-1.6.
>>>
>>>I capture  720x576 mpeg2 @ 4500/6000 (I tried also at higher bitrates).
>>>At this resolution
>>>and bitrate mythtv software playback cannot keep up on my EPIA (thanks
>>
>>Jelle
>>
>>>for pointing
>>>this out), so I am forced to use hw-decoding.
>>>
>>>Here some thoughts about this:
>>>1) I was initially suspecting the quality of EPIA tv out, but DVD playback
>>>via xine looks good,
>>>and using a standard pc monitor does not change quality substantially
> 
> (xine
> 
>>>dvd playback
>>>is spectacular on a standard pc montor).
>>>
>>>2) Is a hw decoding lacks of quality problem?
>>>
>>>3) Using hw decoding, playback is mirrored on standard console (making
>>
>>it
>>
>>>unusable), is it normal
>>>behaviour or something wrong in my setup?  
>>>
>>>
>>>Is someoune  achieving a mythtv playback substantially not distinguishable
>>>from standard 
>>>tv broadcast with hardware similar to mine? 
>>>
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