[mythtv-users] TV Screen Scrambled

[Nick Morrott]

On 06/05/07, Alan Calvert <cal at graggrag.com> wrote:

> I'm dealing with a very similar set of issues, but on a different card (saa7134).
> Rather than the Mythtv GUI and X display sizes, I'm highly suspicious that the
> problem lies in the capture resolution settings:
>   <http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.3>
> NTSC settings are well covered, but PAL settings not so well. And to make it
> worse, the default settings in Recording Profiles->Software Encoders (v4l based)
> come up as Width 480, Height 576, which doesn't sound quite right to me.

For PAL, 4870x576 is the standard resolution for SVCD (the NTSC
equivalent is 480x480). If using a software capture card, you may want
to test capturing at 720x576 (i.e. PAL DVD resolution) and see if this
improves things.

Nick
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