I'm going to have to chime in here.
For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. But still not anywhere near where I want it to be.
I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better.
All this deserves two notes:
1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop there....)
2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to learn, tweak, and learn some more.
Just my 2c...
- Mark
John Kondis wrote:
I can't post a sample but what I can tell you is the basic encoder/decoder combination is fantastic at the default 4500kb/s, max 6000kb/s (around 2.1G/hr). On mine, though, the TV tuner had noticeable echoes, and the s-video to composite adapter that came with it was a POS. So I replaced it with a $22 Radio Shack adapter for s-video and sent s-video to my TV and now it's very, very good.
--- Alex Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can somebody post somewhere (or point me to) anhttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
example TV recording using the PVR-350 and MythTV? Before I spend the $$ on one of
these, I'd like to see what the combo is truly capable of. Thanks.
-alex
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