[mythtv-users] Video quality on 0.28 worse than it was on 0.21

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:15:49 +0000, you wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 3:54 PM Stephen Worthington
><stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> I am not sure with the 700 series, but I think the 710 does do
>> everything needed, so there would be no need for a more expensive
>> GT730.
>
>My recollection is that if you live in a 60Hz country
>you needed a 730 to insure the headroom was
>sufficient for worst case (larges resolution, highest
>frame rate) de-interlacing.  However, I have not
>looked at the benchmarks in quite some time, so
>driver changes may have shifted those numbers.
>
>As far as drivers, I seem to recall that the 304
>driver can be made to work with newer kernels
>(at least one other distro has packages for the
>4.15+ kernel).  Not sure why the packagers for
>ubuntu have not updated it, but perhaps some
>Myth-er would do that work and repackage that
>for the entire ubuntu community and everyone
>wins.

For some reason the Ubuntu packagers have decided not to support
Nvidia drivers that are no longer supported by Nvidia.  So since
Nvidia no longer supports the 304 drivers, they have stopped all
support for the 304 packages.