But, I honestly have to say that I am quite disappointed in the video quality of the recordings and live TV that is coming in off the PVR-350. It looks like VHS. The mpg stream off of /dev/video0 seems to be 720x480, but it looks real fuzzy and somewhat washed out. This is really noticeable when you look at things like news crawls and stock tickers.
The video quality is notably lower when compared to watching my cable feed directly through the tuner in my TV.
Am I missing some tweakables? Or is this just what people accept?
Digging through the PVR 350 specs I noted that it lists its recording specs as "NTSC format* at 29.97fps: Full D1: 720x480, MPEG1: 352x240"
(see http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm)
Ah-Ha. it does seem to capture the MPG stream at VHS level resolutions, regardless of what it's finally rendered to. Are there better cards out there? Are people really settling for VHS grade recording from $1k custom PCs?
Setup details: PVR 350 capture/tuner card (cable input) nVidia 5700LE display card (s-video out) PC HDTV-3000 (currently not configured) Basic sony 32" TV (s-video input) AMD 64 3500
Opinions? Help?
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