[mythtv-users] mythtv tv recording suddenly grainy / ugly (still going on :( )

[Brian Wood]

Alan wrote:

> and the TV reception is fine.  I've also done the following:
> 
>  - increased the default and livetv recording profiles from the default
>    bitrate of 4500/6000 (default/max) settings to 7000/7500
>  - turned off interlacing
>  - changed the ffmpeg setting (forget what this setting is called)
>  - set the system to use only the pvr350 decoder (I thought this would
>    have been set, but for some reason, it wasn't).  This setting only
>    changed the video output to fill the screen (I had tweaked it so that
>    recording show showed with the black bars if it was 4:3 not full
>    screen).

If things were working, then went south when you hadn't done anything,
changing settings in an attempt to "fix" it is the wrong approach IMHO.
Changing settings can only fix a problem caused by changing settings.

But, did changing the bitrate result in a change in the filesize?

In any case, it's starting to sound like you might have a failed PVR.

beww