[mythtv-users] Success with XvMC and interlacing (SD)
Jesse Guardiani
jesse at wingnet.net
Fri Mar 31 01:57:54 UTC 2006
On Thursday 30 March 2006 5:57 pm, Cymen Vig wrote:
> I've noticed a number of posts discussing XvMC and interlacing. I'm
> running MythTV SVN from sometime before .19 was released (I don't
> happen to know the SVN number -- anyone know of a way of telling from
> the install/binaries?).
>
> Until recently, I was happy with MythTV but I wasn't blown away with
> the picture quality and assumed it was due to my hardware. This all
> changed when 1) I enabled interlacing in X and switched the screen
> resolution to 720x480 (from 640x480), 2) and started using the -ck2
> kernel patch.
>
>
> 1) Enabling Interlacing
>
> I used "cvt" to find a nice interlaced ModeLine to use with my Nvidia
> GeForce4 MX 440 (with AGP8X using Nvidia AGP).
>
> ModeLine:
> Modeline "720x480_60.00i" 13.50 720 744 808 896 480 483 493 496
> Interlace +HSync +Vsync
Hmmm... I was under the impression that the TV-OUT on my nvidia FX 5200
was interlaced by default. I'm not using TV-OUT anymore, but I wonder
if it would have helped. Have you seen the TV-OUT quality of a PVR 350?
How does it compare?
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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net
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