On 06/01/07, David Faure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using a PVR-350 card on linux in order to transfer movies from VHS > videotapes to MPEG files. > At the moment I use "cat /dev/video0 > foo.mpg" (I haven't figured out yet > how to record in > mythtv without having any tv channels defined). > > It seems to be working great with most movies, but a few cartoons appear to > be very fuzzy: > any time a character moves, he's in two places at once, as shown in this > screenshot: > http://web.davidfaure.fr/tmp/shot0001.png [1.3 MB] > > Pausing on the VCR doesn't show this artefact, only pausing during playing > (with mplayer, > or after transferring the MPEG to an actual DVD and watching it on a real TV). > > Is this what is called "motion blur"? I have tried setting dnr_mode to 0 and > to 3, > I have tried setting dnr_temporal to 0 and 16, dnr_spatial to 0 and 16, all > this seems to > have no effect. From what I understand, motion blur is about slight fuzziness > (and optimizing > the MPEG compression), whereas my problem is about two distinct images on top > of each other... right? > > Any ideas?
David, These look more like interlacing artefacts - if you run mplayer (or xine) with deinterlacing turned on, does the picture (and still frames) look normal? Nick -- MythTV Official wiki: http://mythtv.org/wiki/ MythTV users list archive: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
