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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;"> <br></div>Hi,<br><br>I've got a bad quality when watching stuff recorded from my PVR-150. <br><br>On some channels I've got diagonal lines but that seems to come from my cable signal which would be too low for the capture card.<br><br>But on all channels, the picture is not as sharp as regular TV and has a lot of artifacts. Those are mostly moire (colors appearing where there shouldn't be), the picture is a little bit flickering and solid colors are not solid anymore, we can see noise on them. <br><br>I've been trying many different configs today but none of them was acceptable enough to watch live TV. <br><br>My display resolution is 640x480 through DVI but I've also tried 1280x720, 720x480. My TV is an HDTV CRT from toshiba (26HF85C)<br><br>I've adjusted the capture resolution to 640x480 but it doesn't seem to make a difference. <br><br>The bitrate is 7500/9000 but that also doesn't really make a difference. <br><br>I've tried many different filters settings like quickdnr with numbers ranging from 0 to 255.<br><br>I've also tried denoise3d with many different settings. While my CPU was too slow to play smoothly, I could at least see that the picture came out with more "vertical rectangles" artifacts.<br><br>Playbacks settings are as such : <br>Deinterlaced with Kernel<br>Preferred mpeg2 decoder : standard<br>Enabled OpenGL vertical sync<br>Video as timebase<br>extra audio buffering<br><br>But I've been playing all day long with those settings only to notice subtle changes in quality but nothing comparable to Regular TV.<br><br>I've also tried to play with v4l2-ctl settings for the capture card (spatial noise filter, temporal, etc) without any success.<br><br>My back/frontend is a P3-1000 with 512mb Nvidia 5500 card and I'm using Nvidia's drivers<br>Needless to say that the picture quality with menus, Divx and everything else is perfect. <br><br>Is anybody else suffering from the same problems ?<br>Has anybody been able to fix that ?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Chandi<br></body>
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