[mythtv-users] Picture quality question

[Phill Edwards]

> I don't use DVB.. but I presume it works like all other capture cards
>
> The signal is being captures, compressed, saved and then displayed.. and
> the result of the compression is what you are seeing.
>
> Try increasing the quality in the "recording profiles" part of setup and
> see how that works for you -easier to test your settings under the "live
> tv" profile - then when you are happy copy the settings to the other
> profile you use for recording

No, that won't work. DVB cards just take they broadcast MPEG2 stream
and dump it straight to disk, so the recording profiles have no effect
whatsover. If you're transcoding, though, you could try altering the
transcoding rules.

Regards,
Phill