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

[Craig Longman]

Perry, Aaron wrote:

>By the way, the vertical bars went away after a reboot.
>
i have found that removing and reloading the ivtv driver can solve this 
also.  but, most recently, i found that simply jumping to a channel 
directly (instead of up and down) solves it  also.  i'm playing around 
with different firmwares to see which is better.  with the latest cvs 
though (i needed to adjust my contrast, it sucked) the lines seem to 
crop up every second or third recording, very frustrating.  i never 
noticed it with the older ivtv driver.

>Question, in the documentation there's a note about adjusting the
>recording rate of the ivtv drivers for the PVR-250:
>
>/path/to/ivtv/utils/test_ioctl -c bitrate=2500000,bitrate_peak=8000000
>
the default is 8Mbps bitrate and 16Mbps peak, so unless you've changed 
it, thats what you should be recording at.  if you're not worried about 
disk space, leave it at 8/16.

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();