[mythtv-users] mpeg2 playback quality captured with PVR-150

[John Drescher]

On 10/5/07, Chandi Bernier <burni13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a bad quality when watching stuff recorded from my PVR-150.
>
> On some channels I've got diagonal lines but that seems to come from my
> cable signal which would be too low for the capture card.
>
> But on all channels, the picture is not as sharp as regular TV and has a lot
> of artifacts. Those are mostly moire (colors appearing where there shouldn't
> be), the picture is a little bit flickering and solid colors are not solid
> anymore, we can see noise on them.
>
> I've been trying many different configs today but none of them was
> acceptable enough to watch live TV.
>
> My display resolution is 640x480 through DVI but I've also tried 1280x720,
> 720x480. My TV is an HDTV CRT from toshiba (26HF85C)
>
> I've adjusted the capture resolution to 640x480 but it doesn't seem to make
> a difference.
>
> The bitrate is 7500/9000 but that also doesn't really make a difference.
>
Although this may not cause you problems this is a high bitrate for SD
video at this resolution. Do you get any errors in your dmesg output?
Perhaps the bitrate is too high for your system to keep up with the
card.

John

John