[mythtv-users] Problem with PVR-150 capture

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Robert Broughton wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 06:27 -0800, mike wrote:
>> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:13, Robert Broughton wrote:
>>> The only problem I've got right now is, some programs, such as "The
>>> Daily Show" and "Desperate Housewives", record and play near- 
>>> perfectly.
>>> Others, such as "Saturday Night Live", are barely watchable.
>
>>> I'm pretty sure this problem has to do with capturing, because I  
>>> see the
>>> same thing of I copy the MPG file to another computer and play it. I
>>> don't think processing speed is an issue, because I've got a  
>>> Celeron 1.8
>>> GHz processor.
>> Hey Bob, I just installed a PVR-150 last night, and it was doing  
>> like that
>> until I went into:
>> setup. tv settings, recording profiles, MPEG2 encoders-
>> and changed the 'image size" to 720x480 in default, live tv, etc.  
>> Now it works
>> perfectly.
>
> This seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you very much!
>

First, obviously, glad to hear that's it's working.

But resolution (image size) alone shouldn't have done that. I'll bet  
there was some other crap in the PVR's setup that got re-written when  
you changed the res parameters. I'm not a coder but perhaps it re- 
writes all the parameters to the card (or the driver) when something  
changes?