[mythtv-users] FW: Pvr250 issues - any suggestions?

[Kevin Russell]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions - I've tried all of them.
However, I'm no closer to getting an acceptable quality.  What are my
next options?  New graphhics card, will myth 0.15 help, different tv
card, different drivers, filters?  It definitely seems to be an
interlacing issue as when I playback on my mythbox on the tv I get the
predescribed problems of jittery motion, etc but when playing it back on
windows media player on a laptop it looks much better.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph A. Caputo [mailto:jcaputo1 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:57 PM
To: kevrussell at charter.net; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: Pvr250 issues - any suggestions?


On Friday 02 April 2004 16:22, Kevin Russell wrote:
> Yes, I've tried the kerneldeint filter and had no changes.  Again, 
> there must be some issue as I've read other very similar posts but no 
> solutions.
>
> Thanks again for all your help!
>

I see you're using a GeForce FX type video card... any chance you're 
using the XvMC-accelerated MPEG decoding?  If you are then the filters 
will have no effect.  Basically:

hardware encoding (PVR-x50, M-179) -> can't use filters for recording
hardware decoding (PVR-350 TV-out, or XvMC) -> can't use filters for 
playback

You can use playback filters if you turn off XvMC support.  I believe 
you can do this in Setup->TV->Playback.

-JAC