[mythtv-users] tv-out quality problems

[Michael Bochynski]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:07 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
[...]

> >However, honestly, the advantages of NVIDIA card you presented are not
> >overwhelming. The MythTV box will be used for MythTV only, nothing else,
> >hence OpenGL does not matter, am I right?
> >
> OpenGL is currently used by MythMusic (Goom!!!! among other 
> visualizations), and many games that are played using MythGame.  Then, 
> there's OpenGL vsync for smooth frame delivery.
> 
> Also, MythUI--which will probably show up in 0.20--will use OpenGL as 
> the painting backend by default and will be the best reason to have 
> hardware-based OpenGL acceleration support.
> 


While MythGames are not on the list, MythMusic and new MythUI is worth considering. 
BTW, do you know when 0.20 is planned to be released?



> >I don't even have, and don't
> >plan to have, a regular monitor/LCD at home which I could use :) Signal
> >(MythTV) goes to TV out only. 
> >
> >Right now I output TV to my receiver and then to TV. While HDTV is a
> >nice-to-have, i do not expect to have it in the next 6 - 12 month, while
> >I will watch TV in the next 6 - 12 months :) Hence having DVI, HDTV and
> >so on is not the highest priority. I will probably want to add it, 
> >  
> >
> Yeah, me too.  But then again, plans change.  I just bought an 
> HDTV--something I've been saying I wouldn't do... 


:) yep. I totally agree. You never know. However, while I'd like to 
have nice (new) tv, trekking in Peru and visiting Mexico, Paris and Toronto
takes precedence :)



>  But, it's your 
> decision to make--I was just trying to answer your question, "whether it 
> makes more sense to get PVR-350 (I don't need dual tuners of 500, since 
> I use cable box)  or nice NVIDIA graphics card for better support for 
> linux?"
> 
> I'm just thinking that if you're truly concerned with the pursuit of 
> video perfection, you'll eventually find that NTSC/PAL--not your 
> video/capture card--is the weak link in the chain.  :)


:) 

> 
> >I am going solely after the  picture (TV) quality. I do not mind
> >proprietary drivers, since I hope I have my compile-from-source times
> >behind me, starting with the (very) early Linux times. I know, however,
> >that ATI (proprietary) drivers are worse than NVIDIA ones. BTW, which
> >NVIIDA card is worth looking at? I don't want to end up with card which
> >is not supported under Linux at all.
> >  
> >
> Like I said, the PVR-350 will provide that placebo effect that makes you 
> believe for sure that you have the best possible picture quality.  ;)


yeah ... and since my goal was not to spend any money (so far so good - old
parts from unused computers of mine), it seems that graphics card would be a 
better solution in a long run. 

And I admit, that software encoding itself, does not have a huge impact on 
the system, I can live with that. 


> Mike


Michael


> 
> Totally OT rant:  I've got to admit that having received this message 
> from you, I'm extremely disappointed with Evolution.  I know it's trying 
> to be the Outlook replacement, but do they really want to make it as 
> awful as Outlook?  It actually puts a one-celled table containing 
> another one-celled table containing your entire message (and, therefore, 
> the entire body of the HTML page) in the HTML version of your multipart 
> message.  And, it does the same HTML-obfuscation that MS FrontPage 
> does--i.e. opening and closing font tags all over (although FrontPage 
> goes much farther than Evolution with the obfuscation).  And, I won't 
> even mention the deprecated HTML 4.01 instead of xHTML (or even 
> xHTML-like HTML)...


I couldn't agree more. Not to mention that integration with Exchange is
far from perfect, attachments are randomly
changed from a supported type/extension (zip, doc) to a binary (.bin)
type. No idea why and whet it happens, however 
it's so frustrating that I have to use VMWare with outlook just for the
purpose of sending the attachments.

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