<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Steven Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Joan Vallés <<a href="mailto:joan.valles@gmail.com">joan.valles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Steven Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Joan Vallés <<a href="mailto:joan.valles@gmail.com">joan.valles@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > > Hi,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I've been using internal player for some time and I was happy with it as<br>
> it<br>
> > > plays many of the formats I use, since I upgraded to .21 I started<br>
> noticing<br>
> > > that videos do not look as smooth as before, I don't know how to explain<br>
> it<br>
> > > in my poor English, but image quality is definitely worse. I looks like<br>
> the<br>
> > > horizontal lines are doubled, scaled without interpolation ("coarse"?),<br>
> > > does it make any sense? anyone experiencing something similar?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > BTW I tried the same videos using mplayer (SMplayer) and they look great<br>
> (as<br>
> > > they did when using .20)<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Thanks<br>
> ><br>
> > Possibly due to the use of a different deinterlacer than you had<br>
> > previously set which is due to the new CPU Profiles. Make sure your<br>
> > using the proper Profile for your system and that the deinterlacer is<br>
> > properly set.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Thanks for your reply Steve but videos I play using mythvideo are not<br>
> interlaced, anyway, I'm going to check again my Playback profiles starting<br>
> with the Slim one.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Joan, it's possible, if the video your watching is much lower<br>
resolution than your TV that the scaling Myth uses (which is very<br>
basic) may be showing its inferiority to the mplayer scaler. Thats one<br>
area where some work was done a while back (to introduce the use of<br>
better scaling algorithms but nothing seems to have come of it. I<br>
think the idea was to get it working in hardware via the openGL stuff,<br>
but I don't think it was implemented yet.<br>
<br>
Daniel, any word on the scaling stuff that was discussed oh-so-many months ago?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Steve, you are right, videos are about the half of the resolution of the TV. I just noticed the big quality difference when I switched to 0.21, before that (0.20) I was very happy with the output.<br>
<br>Regarding openGL, should it provide more quality? I've tried to use it but it works just once, then when go back to the recording list and play the video again I just get a black screen... I need to do some more testing.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joan