Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 
> John Drescher wrote:
>> On 10/2/07, Kirk Bocek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm finding the quality of the image captured by my PVR-500 tuners (via the
>>> 'cat /dev/videox' method) to be pretty poor. The best I can describe is that
>>> it is noisy or 'blocky' or grainy. The problem is on both tuners.
>>>
>> Can you post a sample on a web site or a free download site as
>> attachments on this list are limited to 40K? A screen capture will
>> probably be good enough.
> 
> I sent this once as an attachment but that's been blocked for administrator 
> approval. Try this:
> 
> http://www.kbocek.com/vlcsnap-2305977.jpg
> 
> The image has been cropped to keep it under
> 40k. Some of the noise is interlacing in this picture. If you look further you
> can see a sort of blocky noise that just isn't present in the streams I
> capture off of the digital channels. Seems I should be able to do better with
> the PVR-500.

And for comparison sake, take a look at:

http://www.kbocek.com/vlcsnap-2320059.jpg

which was captured through the S-video input with the image coming from my 
cable box. Much, much cleaner. Am I wrong to think I should be able to get 
something similar from the analog tuners?


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