One thing you can tweak the recording profile "Live TV" You can set it at 720 x 480. Hopefully that will help.
--- Carl Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a bit of tweaking, I have my Myth box > basically working right now. > The software seems pretty good. Video quality is > excellent for X apps > and when playing DVDs. > > 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? > > --- Carl > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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