[mythtv-users] RTJpeg seems to have hosed my recording quality. Can't fix it.

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:30 pm, Perry, Aaron wrote:
> I've been experimenting with different recording options on my newly
> configured MythTV setup.  I was having a great time until I selected
> RTJpeg as the recording method.  I noticed the live TV quality went
> downhill, the picture had fuzzy vertical lines (they appeared blue and
> orange) that created a very static-looking picture.
>
> So, I switched back to Hardware MPEG and also tried MPEG4, but now I
> can't get rid of the lines.
>
> This is the second time that this has happened (once last week at some
> point during configuration, but it seemed to go away at some point and I
> don't know why).
>
> Has anyone seen this?  Any ideas?
>
> My configuration is Mandrake91, PVR-250, new CVS version of Myth
> (yesterday morning).

None of those settings (rtjpeg, mpeg4, hardware mjpeg) have any affect 
whatsoever on hardware mpeg2 encodes from the pvr-250.  The _only_ recording 
options that work are the width and height of the video.

Isaac