[mythtv-users] Poor quality pictures

Christopher Kerr mythtv at theseekerr.com
Fri Feb 5 23:39:52 UTC 2010


On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Alan Secker <alan at asandco.co.uk> wrote:
> This is DVB-T on a Nova-T 500. The device produced excellent results in my
> previous machine, running Kaffeine. On the present more powerful machine,
> the picture is fine except that the it starts and stops with consequent
> smears with the sound slurring in sympathy.
>
> My first thought was the coax lead from the wall to the PC but I substituted
> an LCD TV. Not only was it fine but it found more channels than at its
> regular location in our kitchen.
>
> Is it possible that this is in some way caused by the settings? (Just
> grasping at straws),

Doesn't sound like the symptoms point to your capture card, DVB
problems normally manifest themselves in the form of blockiness or
garbled (squeaks and pops) audio. Sounds more like a playback problem
to me, try playing the recordings in Mplayer or VLC.

- Chris


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