[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback quality poll

[resoli at tiscali.it]

Thank you Josh,
I was too planning to buy a scan converter, (or building a VGA to RGB one,
see my other post) but I wanted first get some opinions from people like
you that already use similar things with mythtv.

Roberto
>-- Messaggio Originale --
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:59:09 -0500
>From: Josh Burks <jburks at mktinsights.com>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback quality poll
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>
>
>Sorry, I don't have similar hardware, but I had a similar quality 
>complaint. I wasn't happy with the quality of liveTV or playback of 
>recordings through s-video. It was hard to correct the interlacing 
>problems, and small text (eg: a terminal or web browser) was nearly 
>impossible to read.
>
>I picked up a VGA-to-Component video converter and I feed my TV a 
>component signal straight from my onboard intel 810 video. It's hard to

>distinguish between MythTV and straight cable through the TV tuner.
>
>Here's the link for my VGA converter:
>http://www.smarthome.com/7743C.HTML
>
>There's also this one, which alot of MythTV users seem to be using:
>http://www.smarthome.com/77706.HTML
>
>My System Specs:
>1.7 GHz P4 on a MSI Micro-ATX Mobo
>256 MB DDR
>PVR-250 (with the crappy black remote)
>Backend and Frontend on same machine.
>
>Josh Burks
>
>
>resoli at tiscali.it wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> After a lot of trial and errors I finally have a working mythtv 0.15.1
>
>> splitted frontend-backend setup.
>> 
>> Nevertheless, I am quite disappointed about the quality of what i see
on
>> my
>> old 25" Sony Trinitron: standard tv looks a lot better, firstly in terms
>> of image crispness
>> and then of motion fluidity (ther is no evidence of frame dropping, anyway).
>> 
>> Hardware:
>> My frontend is an EPIA-M 10K (hw decoding enabled), backend is a Celeron
>> 1GHz with 
>> PVR-250 tuner-encoder. 100MB full-duplex ethernet in between. Im using
>the
>> EPIA s-video tv out.
>> 
>> Software:
>> I am running epia-sources-2.4.25-r2 kernel and xfree-unichrome-4.4.0-r16
>> from epia.kalf.org
>> and libddmpeg-1.6.
>> 
>> I capture  720x576 mpeg2 @ 4500/6000 (I tried also at higher bitrates).
>> At this resolution
>> and bitrate mythtv software playback cannot keep up on my EPIA (thanks
>Jelle
>> for pointing
>> this out), so I am forced to use hw-decoding.
>> 
>> Here some thoughts about this:
>> 1) I was initially suspecting the quality of EPIA tv out, but DVD playback
>> via xine looks good,
>> and using a standard pc monitor does not change quality substantially
(xine
>> dvd playback
>> is spectacular on a standard pc montor).
>> 
>> 2) Is a hw decoding lacks of quality problem?
>> 
>> 3) Using hw decoding, playback is mirrored on standard console (making
>it
>> unusable), is it normal
>> behaviour or something wrong in my setup?  
>> 
>> 
>> Is someoune  achieving a mythtv playback substantially not distinguishable
>> from standard 
>> tv broadcast with hardware similar to mine? 
>> 
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