On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 16:23 -0400, Josh Sharpe wrote:
> I've got a 350 and a 500 installed in the same box.   The 350 produces
> great pictures, no complaints.  The 500, on both tuners, produces
> not-so-great picture.  Not necessarily static -- it's viewable, but
> not as clear as the 350.  Maybe it's a firmware issue? -- I've tried
> troubleshooting that but no luck. I noticed at the bottom of dmesg
> there's some tuner frequency out of range "problems" (?)  Then I
> noticed the frequency of my 350 and 500 tuners were different, so I
> set the frequency of the 500 to that of the 350 -- but that did
> nothing, gave me a black staticy screen.  Anyways, I'm including dmesg
> as well as out put from 'ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video0' (350)  and
> 'ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video1' (first 500 tuner) 

I see the exact same difference in quality with a PVR-500 from last year
(Philips tuner) and a recent PVR-500 (Samsung tuner).  The Philips
was/is beautiful, the Samsung looked like it had MPEG compression
"artifacts" all over the place.  Since they are in different MythTV
boxes, I put the Samsungs into a different recording Recording Profile,
and cranked up the quality settings.  Now the artifacts are gone, but it
still looks a little "grainy".

Lonnie Borntreger



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