Jonathan Smith wrote: >I am reposting my question about the ability to improve quality of the >video on certain channels. As my original post indicates, there are a >few channels where the quality of the output is grainy, a couple have >horizontal lines on screen. I have similar results using either my >nvidia card for output or the 350 card. I do record on some of these >channels, it looks worse than a VCR recording. The channels look fine >when viewing from cable TV. Most of them are lower number channels: >12,14,15,17. Any suggestions? > > This is just a shot in the dark, but have you tried to correct these warnings and errors?
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011 or 0x02050032. ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 Have you tried the encoder firmwares listed in that message? ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-init-mpeg.bin ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory? ivtv0: failed to read mpeg decoder initialisation file v4l-cx2341x-init-mpeg.bin You seem to be missing this firmware (or it's named wrong). cx25840 1-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx25840.fw And this one as well. Chad Kitching _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
