[mythtv-users] MythTV Light / Rasp Pi 3 Live TV quality

[Ken Bass]

On 11/07/2016 03:19 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 11/07/2016 03:08 PM, Ken Bass wrote:
>> I do find the difference in video quality between the MythTV and Kodi
>> surprising.
> Can you expand on this? What sort of difference in quality? Is the
> picture better with Kodi? I have not seen any difference between
> Raspberry Pi MythTV and amd64 MythTV in picture quality. What sort of
> video quality problem do you have?
I put the same channel on which was a sports channel (Tennis Channel HD) 
and it looks crisp and clear on Kodi, no jaggies, etc. I swapped SD card 
to the MythTV Light and it was more pixelated and had jagged edges. That 
was using Openmax High Quality. The source was the HDHR Prime (so 
MPEG2TS) and I purchased the decode license for the Pi3 and had low CPU 
utilization on both. I believe the source was 1080i, not 720p.

I did not look into any MythTV recording profiles, but from the wiki, it 
appears for the HDHR Prime there would not be any options there wrt 
quality since I am not transcoding or anything - it is just a direct 
stream capture.