[mythtv-users] Improving picture quality. (A newb's struggle with Myth)

[J. Donavan Stanley]

James Satterfield wrote:

>After receiving lots of help from folks on IRC (thanks Ashlar, Iggy, Jams, 
>and Cesman!) I've got a fully functioning MythTV box. I've spent a lot of 
>time trying to tweak everything to improve the picture quality. I'm trying 
>to get the image on par with Tivo and ReplayTV. I've come a long way so 
>far. Got rid of almost all of the twitchyness I was seeing by kicking the 
>bitrate up to 8000-10000. Now I just want to sharpen up the tv picture a 
>bit. DVD playback looks perfect.
>

That bitrate is insanely high.  I record a 704x480  with 3500-5000 
bitrate and it by far exceeds my old Tivo, I've even done blind A/B 
comparisons with folks and they've all said the Myth box looked better.