[mythtv-users] Setting deinterlacers (was Re: Picture quality, was "Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv")

[Alex Cruz]

 In that same screen, the type of Deinterlacing can be changed to Kernel, 
Bob(x2), etc. Try the different types and see which works for you.

-alex


On Tuesday 18 October 2005 09:00 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Laurie Odgers wrote:
> > Something to do with deinterlacing perhaps? Ive noticed that there is a
> > significant difference between linear blend and the kernel deinterlacer
> > when watching something fast paced like football, the kernel deinterlacer
> > looks much nicer
>
> How do you control this?  All I've noticed in the mythtv
> configuration (on, IIRC, mythfrontend) is 'deinterlace video on/off',
> nothing to control how it's deinterlaced.
>
> My particular situation is that I sometimes get double-images on my
> TV which make it feel choppy.  Pausing and going through it frame-by-
> frame, I'll see that the image actually is doubled, with a (e.g.) 1/3
> transparent copy of something in the old position and a 2/3
> transparent copy of it in the new position.  (This is most clearly
> visible on animated programs, of course.)  The odd thing is that
> watching avi or mpg files not created by mythtv on the TV looks fine
> and watching mythtv's recordings on a remote front end attached to an
> LCD monitor also looks fine.  It's only the combination of a myth
> recording and the TV display that has this problem.  I've tried
> setting the frontend on the TV to both deinterlace and not
> deinterlace, but it has not had any readily-visible effect on this
> problem either way.