[mythtv-users] Myth playback quality

[James L. Paul]

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D Banerjee wrote:
| I'm pretty sure what you're experiencing is interlaced video, go to
playback
| options and check "deinterlace video"

I don't now if the problem he's seeing is interlaced video or not. I
have a PVR250 (freestyle) and I can certainly see interlacing on fast
moving video. However, I leave deinterlacing turned off because I'd
rather see the occasional interlace artifacts than have the entire image
always fuzzy and soft. Turning on deinterlace makes my picture look
significantly blurry and unfocused. My wife won't even watch it if I
turn that on, so off it goes.

I'm confused about why I see interlace artifacts on a TV anyway. Why
isn't the interlaced source matched to the NTSC video out so that there
is no need to deinterlace? Perhaps there is some capture/output
resolutions settings that this works and I'm just not using them?

Also, if it's an interlacing issue, why would mplayer look good for him
but not Myth? Wouldn't mplayer also display interlace artifacts?

| Debabrata
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| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Chris" <mythtvusers.x.kyanos at spamgourmet.org>
| To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
| Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:02 PM
| Subject: [mythtv-users] Myth playback quality
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|>I've become very fond of Myth since I started using it, and I would
|>like to use it full time (not even bother with the VCR as a backup).
|>One of the things preventing me from doing so is the playback quality
|>from within the Myth viewer.  It's pretty good (I have a PVR-250), but
|>it blurs on fast-moving objects.  It also looks weird on animated things
|>(like a cartoon mouth) where it jumps between two positions.
|>
|> If I go track down the actual .nuv file and play it using mplayer,
|>those quality issues go away, so I know it's not the file itself.  I've
|>got all the quality settings I could find in myth cranked way up but it's
|
| still
|
|>happening.  Any suggestions?
|>
|> Oh, and is there some combination of settings to use with
|>PVR-250-generated files to get commercial skip more reliable?  It seems
|>to work fine for the first 30 minutes of a show then thinks the next
|>commercial is the end credits.  I've tried changing the settings but
|>haven't found one that works any better.
|>
|> Thanks all!
|>
|>
|>--
|>Chris Witham <mythtvusers.x.kyanos at spamgourmet.org>
|>Computer Engineer and Geek
|>Fan of video games, anime, and the outdoors
|>Creator of the original Bitch of Fate
|>
|>Today's inspirational saying from despair.com:
|>
|>Bitterness:  Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world,
|>             because there's nothing the world loves more than
|>             the taste of really sweet dreams.
|>
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