[mythtv-users] How to get the best video from mythtv

[Phill Edwards]

> I have seperate frontend and backend PCs, my backend is a P4 3.2ghz, with 2gb of ram. I am running FC4. I have 2 twinhan dvb/t cards and one saa7134 based analogue tuner. I am using 2 x 400gb sata drives with the /video folder on a logical volume.
> The saa7134 card give a fairly ordinary picture, but the dvb cards are great and they are the ones that are important to me, since the remaining analogue tv channels will be going digital soon.
> So I guess my questons are;
> Does any one have a batch of picture quality settings, that they believe are the best possible?
> Is a better picture obtained from DVI, VGA, or from TV out?

You can't adjust the recording quality of DVB-T cards. They just take
the MPEG-2 broadcast stream and dump it to disk. So no matter how much
you play with recording profiles with these cards it makes no
difference. So if you're having playback issues, perhaps the files are
being transcoded without you knowing it into a low quality format? Or
maybe there is something srange about your video settings that's
affecting playback. I recently used the nvidia-settings utility to add
some "life" to my playback because the colours etc were very flat up
until then.

As for which video out to use, I don't know but I would guess that T
Vout is the worst of those 3, with DVI & VBA being similar to each
other.

Regards,
Phill