Subject: [mythtv-users] tweaking video and disappearing audio settings

[Gregory J. McGee]

(//snip)
> 2)  My video is okay, but not great.  I have a mediocre analog cable
> signal to begin with, so consequent degradation takes its toll on
> picture quality.  The lighter colors appear washed out and there is
> some artifacting with hi-speed motion.  I scanned the archives and saw
> that people have had good success with nvtv.  I'm running an nVidia
> 4400 MX, so I thought I'd give it a crack.  Unfortunately, it
> segfaults.  I'm running Gentoo and I've emerged it and built it from
> sourceforge source with the same result.  I've seen some posts about
> tweaking video quality with xvcontrols, but can't seem to find them. 
> Any idea on how to access them or any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
In mythweb/settings, try the following settings:

(64k is 100%)
Bright 48000
contrast 16384
color 16384
hue 32768

The defaults cause issues like black/red video for some cards, was
blamed on bttv-0.9.12, but it was the settings for me.
(avertv stereo)