[mythtv-users] Video Quality

[Chris Teachworth]

I've got the jittery motion problem with a PVR-250 too. Just out of
curiosity, how many of us that have this problem have digital cable? I
_believe_ the cable co here encodes the digital channels to MPEG2 (I've
got a dct2224) so is this just a consequence of encoding the same signal
x2? Just guessing here...

Chris Teachworth 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Shay - MythTV
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Quality
> 
> At 07:52 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
> >Tor Hovland wrote:
> >
> >>Rest assured that you are not alone. Having spent the last week
setting
> up
> >>my own Myth box, I have eventually ironed out just about all
problems
> (the
> >>whole thing was very unstable with the stock gentoo sources, but
> following
> >>the advice of switching to vanilla sources certainly solved it). The
> picture
> >>is very good and I'm quite happy with the system now. However, I can
> still
> >>feel (yeah, that's the term that describes it best) the difference
> between
> >>analog and Myth/PVR-250, simply because the analog video is much
> smoother.
> >>It seems to me that the capture frame rate is just a little too low,
and
> >>when contrasting things move quickly you can actually see how they
jump
> from
> >>one discrete position to the next, i.e. not the virtually continuous
> >>movement that we expect from live tv.
> >>
> >>
> >It's possible the problem lies on the output side of things and not
> really
> >capture related at all.  My wife once said "it's like watching tv on
the
> >computer but it's on tv" which was her way of saying it didn't look
> >natural...  Lots of tweaking later and she's one happy camper.  In
fact
> >during A/B comparisons she preferred Myth's output to the Tivos.
> >_______________________________________________
> 
> I believe that I'm getting the same quality as Tor, and I can honestly
say
> its not the output.  If I watch a DivX movie, the quality is superb.
> 
> -Shay
> 
> 
>