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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The issue that I have is the apparent behavior differences
between the 9.10 and 10.04 releases. The 9.10 release produces *.mpg files
that are only 548x480 while the 10.04 release produces *.mpg files that are
1920x1080 for EXTACTLY the same broadcasted content. The machines are running
side-by-side. The user specified configurations look identical for both the front
and back ends. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>When I examine the recorded *.mpg files using VLC media player,
the recorded content from 9.10 is small and properly framed while the 10.04
release has approximately 700 pixels of black border on the left and right
edges and approximately 250 pixel on the top and bottom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I haven’t found anything that will explain the apparent
differences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ebsen, Mike P.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion about mythtv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] MythTv 0.23 recording resolution and
playback issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Raymond Wagner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion about mythtv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] MythTv 0.23 recording resolution and
playback issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 5/19/2010 08:18, Ebsen, Mike P. wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
10.04 release seems to always record at 1920x1080 resolution independent of the
broadcaster’s source format. Old TV shows, like Hogan’s Heros, that are
still being broadcasted at a very grainy 548x480 are small fields of video
information with large black unused bands on top, bottom, left and right edges
of the 1920x1080 *.mpg recorded file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
Your 2250 is a digital tuner. The recordings it makes are /exactly/ what
is being broadcast. MythTV is not altering the stream in any
manner. If you plug in a QAM-capable TV, you will see the exact same
thing.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Another
detriment of the 10.04 resolution issue is recorded file sizes. Recording
the same program on the 9.10 and 10.04 with the same quality setting (Normal)
results in drastically different file sizes. The older 9.10 release could
record an old TV show at a data rate of 780 MByte/half hour. The latest
10.04 release records the same show at a rate of 3.3 GByte/half hour (and a
whole bunch of dark pixels surrounding the relatively small image in the
middle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
The quality settings on a digital tuner do absolutely nothing. MythTV
will store the stream exactly as it is received, and will do no additional
processing.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
I thought one of the attributes of the latest 10.04 release was the newest
H.264 codecs that were both faster and more efficient at video
compression. My observations don’t align with these assumptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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MythTV does not use H.264 for video compression. It can only use MJPEG
and ASP, and then only for analog framegrabbers. The claim was that a
sync of the internal ffmpeg library prior to the release of 0.23 brought a
better optimized H.264 video decompressor, that is roughly 15% faster than
before. This is irrelevant because everything you ever record off that
2250 will be MPEG2.<o:p></o:p></p>
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