[mythtv-users] mythtv tv recording suddenly grainy / ugly

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Sep 16 17:41:09 UTC 2008


On Sep 16, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Dan Christensen wrote:

> Tim Shannon <shannon.timothy at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com 
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Or crank up your resolution on your PVR-350 until it looks  
>>> acceptable
>>
>> When I first hooked up my hdtv, my old recordings looked horrible.  I
>> cranked up the resolution, and it was a big improvement.  My files
>> went from 1 gig / hour to 3 gig / hour, but it got rid of the grain.
>> It's definitely not HD, but it was an improvement.
>
> What resolution and bitrate did you find worked well?  At some point,
> there is simply no more information in the signal, so I'm wondering
> what worked well for you.

There was a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago. Some nice  
gentleman posted a link to a page that talks about this in depth along  
with graphs and all kinds of useful information. I'm too lazy to look  
for it for you right now, though.



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