On 5/9/05, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Live TV quality is incredible, but there are a few things to tweak.
The 350 LiveTV quality is indistinguishable from my input source! > > The picture looks like it is a bit too large for the screen > (overscanned) to the point where I cannot see the checkboxes on the > setup screens. Do I try to underscan it the same way as with NVidia > drivers, or how do I do this? You cannot alter the overscan of the actual video output ( - yet, this may change in newer driver releases). However you can alter the positioning (X,Y, scaling) of the on-screen display to make that fit in the viewable portion of the screen. > I've read that to get the live TV audio to work the same as other parts > of Myth (Myth Video and Recorded shows), you should loop the PVR350 > audio output into the Line in on the sound card. Where do you get the > 350's audio out? I see an audio input on the 350. Or do you take the > stereo connectors and combine into a mini-stereo plug? The 350 card comes with the output splitter cable, giving 2 female phono audio outs, 1 s-video and 1 composite video out. You can use a Y-cable (2xmale phono to 1xmale 3.5mm audio plug) to route the audio back into your line-in on your soundcard. The Line-in on the actual backplace of the card is for *capturing* the audio in the first place when using the s-video/composite input. This setup works for all apps using the 350's output - live and recorded TV, and xine playback if using the 350 as an output. Just ensure you are using the correct mixer settings to allow the live tv buffer audio to be heard, and not the 'live' input audio as it comes into the 350's encoder. > And I just noticed the quality of recorded shows isn't very good. Looks > splotchy and overcompressed. It did not look that way when I was using > the Monitor output. Is there something left to tweak with the frame > buffer? I guess with the live TV looking so good, the recorded programs > are a bit of a letdown. Maybe your recording profile is using too low a bitrate for recording on the 350 (a setting of 6000/8000 will give great results using DVD-Special-2 profile). Also ensure that you are using the 350 output (in frontend setup) and not using software decoding. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
