[mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question SOLVED?

[Mark L. Cukier]

Howard:

Any Luck?

- Mark

Howard Cokl wrote:

>Mark,
>I may have been too hasty.  Couldn't fully test last
>night since my wife is a Survivor freak and had to
>watch.  The little testing I did the picture quality
>is as close as I think I can get it.  However now this
>morning I have had 2 hard lockups, can ping the box
>but that's all.  I'll keep you posted.
>
>--- "Mark L. Cukier" <mark at pemicro.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Howard:
>>
>>I'll have to try recompiling tonight... did you
>>alter any other 
>>settings.pro options? (besides XvMC?).
>>
>>Just so I'm clear, in the end you ended up keeping
>>MythTV set to use XvMC?
>>
>>And, you're settings.pro had:
>>
>>XvMC on, OpenGL on.
>>
>>Thanks! Looking forward to giving this a try!
>>
>>- Mark
>>
>>Howard Cokl wrote:
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>>>I've been messing with this most of the day,
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>>benefit of being a stay at home 
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>>>dad, and I think I have mine figured out.  I turned
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>>off xvmc in MythFrontend 
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>>>Setup and in my xorg.conf, this caused the a
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>>greater load on the CPU but the 
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>>>picture in Myth is the same as straight from
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>>DirecTV.  I think the reason 
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>>>that DVD playback looked so good while TV looked
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>>uncrisp is that the default 
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>>>playback command has mplayer use -vo xv instead of
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>>-vo xvmc.
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>>>But I need xvmc, I don't think my athlon XP 2700+
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>>can handle HDTV without it.  
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>>>So I followed this thread 
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>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/116194
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>>>all except the modeline, recompiled mythtv with
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>>OpenGL, and added Option      
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>>>"XvMCUsesTextures" "True" to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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>>.  This seems to give me a 
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>>>picture that is the same as directv and watching
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>>live tv puts the cpu at 86% 
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>>>idle using encoder 1 which is the freestyle card.  
>>>
>>>Of course I'm going to have to dick around with it
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>>some more since my AA 9A60 
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>>>should be here this week but now it seems that all
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>>is good.
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>>>On Tuesday 15 March 2005 19:32, Chad Delatte wrote:
>>> 
>>>
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>>>>Alright, excuse me for my newbness here, but yes I
>>>>meant to say the itvc16 chipset.
>>>>
>>>>I'm trying to establish that the problem we are
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>>>>
>>having
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>>>>is with the newer revision of the pvr 250.
>>>>
>>>>So far we have the following list of people with
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>>the
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>>>>new cards and have the same issue with sharpness.
>>>>
>>>>hojoloco,
>>>>You also have a newer design card and maybe the
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>>cause
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>>>>of the problems.
>>>>
>>>>1. Me        ITVC-16
>>>>2. hojoloco  ITVC-15 (but it's a frestyle)
>>>>3. dan       ITVC-16
>>>>
>>>>ross.campbell , I did everything in your list
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>>except
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>>>>for
>>>>1. try a different decoder card (my M-179 had poor
>>>>quality compared to my pvr-250) ----Have one on
>>>>ordser, but think I got ripped off on ebay
>>>>2. upgrade/downgrade your video driver and hack on
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>>the
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>>>>config files to optimize for the best resolution
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>>and
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>>>>refresh rate for outputting recorded TV ----- Not
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>>sure
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>>>>how to do this.
>>>>
>>>>mark,
>>>>I noticed when I went to lower settings i had your
>>>>problem.  May want to start a thread about that
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>>one.
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