[mythtv-users] 1000th picture quality question

[David Shay]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Goldberg" <dan at orca1.com>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] 1000th picture quality question
> My setup is the following: I split the coax output from my DirecTV
receiver.
> One output from the split goes straight into the tv. The other output from
> the split goes into the mythtv box. The mythtv box then has s-video into
the
> tv. So, I can then switch between tv and Video1 to see differences in the
> picture quality.
>
> I wonder if that coax splitter could be a source of problems. Tonight I'll
> try feeding the output of the DirecTV receiver straight into the mythtv
box
> and see what happens.

A better approach would be to use S-Video output from the DirecTV receiver
to your encoder (PVR-250, I assume, since you're using ivtv).  Continue to
use S-video to the TV.  That should improve quality.