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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>howdy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>let me begin by thanking everyone
for their help over the weeks getting my system up. i have my email sends
turned off, i just post a question and then read about it on the archive board,
so i don't get a chance to thank people when they respond usually. well,
thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>okay, here's my latest issue.
at some point in the past week when updating mythtv to 0.13 and installing the
latest ivtv drivers i somehow broke my low res. settings. my live-tv and
hi res. settings are 3600/4000 bit stream @ 352x480 and it seems to work pretty
well on my old, crappy tv with composite inputs. my low res. / default
settings are 1200/1800 bit stream @ 352x240 and they used to work out pretty
well for recording cartoons for the kid and other non-critical daily
recordings. honestly, on my tv i can barely tell the difference between
240 and 480 width. also, the two settings work out well for transcoding
when you use the setting 'change stream based on picture size' or whatever that
setting is as it will cut the stream in half for the low res. recordings (at
least i think it does, i've never actually done any tests on this
theory).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>so sometime in the last week the
low res. settings are no good. the stream out of my pvr-250 gets very dark
and/or light. the contrast seems to go way down, lighter colors get washed
out and darker colors turn very black. now, i can keep the bit/sec stream
the same (say 1200) and adjust the res. from 352x240 to 352x480 and the color
will come back. unfortunately the size is now doubled so the picture
doesn't look nearly as good because it's trying to track twice the number of
pixels with the same bit stream.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>so i'm wondering if anyone else
notices this problem and what, if anything, folks have done to get a good
picture with a pvr-250 and under 480 lines. i know it was working at one
point, as i have many recordings at 352x240 that look just fine, but i can't
seem to get them any longer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>as always, thanks for the
help.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>