[mythtv-users] FFW/REW stutters in Recordings - smooth in LiveTV

[Jonno]

On Jan 11, 2008 2:05 PM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 1:57 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Jonno wrote:
> >
> > > Ahh, I see (from this http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html
> > > ). When I get home I'll check what is set up currently.
> > >
> > > Since LiveTV is working great (can't be a processor issue), what would
> > > be the drawback of setting everything to record that way? Is it a
> > > disk-space-saving thing?
> >
> > It's a personal preference of how big you want your video files to be
> > for disk space and frontend playback considerations. Balance it to
> > whatever you consider "good enough" quality and ability to playback/
> > store without stress.
> >
> > > When I say that LiveTV works great, the replay and fast-forwarding
> > > does. I do have another problem when I change aspect ratio to
> > > something other than 4:3 zoom or 16:9 zoom. Then I get horizontal line
> > > distortion on fast-moving video. Think they are related?
> >
> > You're viewing interlaced content on a progressive display, I'm
> > guessing. Use a deinterlacer when viewing content to help.
> >
> Actually I would've expected it to be the opposite. My tv signal is
> OTA broadcast ATSC in the US. I would've thought this would be
> progressive.
>
> My tv is an old CRT (interlaced) which I'm feeding from the composite
> output from my motherboard.
>

Well I played around with deinterlacing and things are certainly
better - although there are still some artifacts when in certain
aspect ratios.
I'll continue to play.