[mythtv-users] Output quality vs PS3

[Mark Kendall]

On 6 May 2011 06:59, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have my recorded shows and DVDs on my MythTV machine. Although I can tell
> it is night and day when I play my shows/movies from the PS3 via UPNP. The
> picture from Myth looks dull and the OSD always unreadable on some movies
> that were encoded at lower resolution.
> My output is using an NVIDIA 8200 via HDMI at 1080p. Is there a setting I'm
> not using right which prevents upscaling?

Steve

It sounds like you're using XVideo (or perhaps XvMC) for your video
output. The 8200 is VDPAU capable which will not only give you
hardware video decoding but also a 'fullscreen' OSD (i.e. 1080).
Alternatively you could try the OpenGL renderer.

regards

Mark