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

[Curtis Gedak]

On 2016-11-07 02:41 PM, Ken Bass wrote:
> 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.
> 


MythTV Light runs on top of of the Raspbian GNU/Linux distribution.  You
might consider checking the resolution settings you have in the Raspbian.

For example check *sudo raspi-config*, and/or /boot/config.txt [1].

[1] http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video_mode_options

Curtis