[mythtv-users] Optimizing Picture output

Nathan A. Smith nasa01 at comcast.net
Mon Jun 11 23:51:38 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 12:10 -0400, Thomas Kessler wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Nathan A. Smith <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         Call me confused.  I have a rear projection TV that does all
>         the way up
>         to 1080p.  It has many, many inputs -- and for this
>         discussion, I am
>         using the DVI connection.  I have setup the resolution from X
>         to match 
>         the state TV resolution 1920x1080.  With this setup I have
>         noticed a
>         noticeable difference between regular TV and what I see via
>         Myth.  Since
>         I have no artist ability -- I really have a hard time
>         describing what 
>         that difference is (ie: color, contrast, brightness,
>         interlacing, all
>         the above).  So my questions are:
>         
>         1. As most things broadcast today are interlaced -- do I need
>         to do
>         deinterlacing?
>         
>         2. How do I match color, contrast, brightness between normal
>         TV and 
>         Myth?
>         
>         
>         3. Are there other options I haven't noticed that I should be
>         using?
>         
>         
>         Thanks
>         
>         
>         Nasa
> 
>  Make sure to check out "Recording Profiles". You can adjust the
> quality of "LiveTV" and other recording profiles. I set my "LiveTV" to
> "720x480", "16:9", bitrate at 12000, and max bitrate at 16000. Since
> LiveTV gets deleted in a day, I figure just crank the settings up. For
> my default recording, the bitrates are much lower. I have a wide
> screen TV and setting 16:9 helped a lot. 
> 
> TK
> 
Thanks TK,

Solid suggestion -- it did make a world of difference.


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