[mythtv-users] Recording/live-tv video quality (aka do PVR150 encoders suck?)

Steve Smith st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 18:22:54 UTC 2008


On 28/01/2008, Steve Smith <st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 28/01/2008, Scott Traurig <straurig at comcast.net> wrote:
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> >   Thanks to all who replied.
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> > To answer some of the questions:
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> > I'm encoding 720 x 480 at 6 Mbps (9 Mpbs max.) MPEG-2 PS stream.
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> > Remember it's apples to apples I'm talking about, source vs. the same
> > stream washed through the PVR150. Forget about the tuner.
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> > As for what it looks like the best I can say is that it all looks very
> > soft and out of focus. It's as if I lost all the high frequency video
> > information.
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> > Movement is smooth with little artifact. I don't see any pixelization.
> > De-interlace on or off makes no difference. Higher bit rates buy me nothing.
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> > Perhaps I should try encoding at a higher resolution than 720 x 480?
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> > Thanks,
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> > Scott
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> Scott,
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> Yes that sounds like a PVR-150 through a composite connection I'm afraid!
> Is it a long cable connection? Maybe a short high quality cable will help?
> (if you don't have that already)
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> But yes if you look at that comparison review of a ATI card that I posted
> you can see the softness of the picture.
> There should be some controls you can set in the driver somewhere to tweak
> colour, sharpness etc, you have to ask on the IVTV mailing list. (There
> certainly used to be things you could tweak on the Windows drivers if you
> had the right tool).
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> But otherwise, it sounds like it's down to the card. The PVR-150 is a
> budget product, unlike your old purpose built DVR solution.
> And until the likes of ATI give us some Linux drivers it looks like we'll
> be stuck with it! grrr
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> Cheers
>
> Steve
>

Yes it looks like v4l2-ctl might be able to provide some useful tweaks for
you.

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/V4l2-ctl

Cheers
Steve
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