[mythtv] s-video input / widescreen tv ?

[Laurent Farcy]

Erik Arendse wrote:
> At 20-1-03 12:31, Laurent Farcy wrote:
> MythTV shows some screens with an menu plus integrated videoscreen 
> (http://mythtv.sourceforge.net/mc/playbackgrab.png). If you see them in 
> 4:3 (on monitor or normal TV), but the program is anamorphic, then the 
> menu itself will be normal but the people in the picture will be long 
> and thin.
> If you put your TV in 16:9 anamorphic (or just turn down the V-scale of 
> your monitor until you have the same deformation) and go to the menu, 
> the menu will be deformed (not much of a problem as long as you can read 
> it), anamorphic pictures will be normal, but any normal shows will have 
> short fat people.
> 
> If mythTV knows which format a recording has and could control your TV, 
> it can turn the TV in 4:3 for all menus, and show normal pictures as 
> 4:3, while showing pictures from anamorphic sources squashed into 16:9.
> 

now it's clear. Thx.

>> So there are some limitations in quality due to the source itself. 
>> But, for a same video source, are there some differences in terms of 
>> visual quality between one tv tuner card and another ? Maybe some 
>> cards have better decoding chips ?
> 
> Yes they do, and on the risk of being flamed: the difference on the 
> output is bigger than on the input.
> This does not have any technological reason, it's just the way the 
> market and the producers work at the moment.
> Meaning get your output right before spending money on the input. (As 
> long as you watch on your monitor it is not an issue of course).

I read the Conexant 25871 chip is the better one. But video card 
manufacturers don't always mention the chip they use for their product. 
Any nvidia geforce-based video card with the conexant 25871 embedded you 
may know ? Or any other recommendations ?

> 
> Erik
> 

Laurent
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