[mythtv-users] Pixelation during fastforward

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Sun May 1 04:17:47 UTC 2005


On 4/26/05, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 25 Apr 2005 21:52, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> > Since upgrading to .18 fastforwarding results in large blocky
> > "pixelation" that doesn't clear up until the fast fowarding stops.
> > The progress indicator moves normally, but it's pretty useless for
> > seeking.
> >
> > I've got a happuage WinTV card with mpeg4 encoding.
> >
> > Any clues what this may be/settings I need to check?
> 
> Well I cured this problem by using ffmpeg instead of libmpeg2 - but obviously
> this only applies to mpeg2 recordings. Still if you have the libmpeg2 option
> selected, try without - I suspect that that you may be recording in mpeg2 not
> mpeg4 (especially if it is a DVB card, Nova-T for example).
> --
> Stuart Morgan
> 


The libmpeg2 box isn't checked.  I don't have a hardware encoder, I
use the software transcoding as mpeg4, so I could be way off base.


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