[mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample

[Mark L. Cukier]

I'm going to have to chime in here.

For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done 
tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, 
tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what 
I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to 
be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped 
to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. 
But still not anywhere near where I want it to be.

I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for 
myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better.

All this deserves two notes:

1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get 
pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop 
there....)

2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the 
image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software 
that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to 
learn, tweak, and learn some more.

Just my 2c...

- Mark

John Kondis wrote:

>I can't post a sample but what I can tell you is the
>basic encoder/decoder combination is fantastic at the
>default 4500kb/s, max 6000kb/s (around 2.1G/hr).  On
>mine, though, the TV tuner had noticeable echoes, and
>the s-video to composite adapter that came with it was
>a POS.  So I replaced it with a $22 Radio Shack
>adapter for s-video and sent s-video to my TV and now
>it's very, very good.
>
>--- Alex Cruz <alex at wislug.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Can somebody post somewhere (or point me to) an
>>example TV recording using the 
>>PVR-350 and MythTV? Before I spend the $$ on one of
>>these, I'd like to see 
>>what the combo is truly capable of. Thanks.
>>
>>-alex
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