On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:03, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:26, Paul Andreassen wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:58 am, Mike Frisch wrote: > > > On 7-Dec-05, at 7:13 PM, Steve Hodge wrote: > > > > On 12/8/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> like a smoothing filter is being used. it looks just a tad softer > > > >> than the > > > >> source. I also notice that during scenes with movement it looks as > > > >> though the > > > >> frame rate was dropping by 5-10. > > > >> > > > >> so are there any "secret" settings I can look for or anything? > > > > > > > > A friend of mine had some success using the nvidia-settings sharpness > > > > adjustment. So if you've got a nVidia card that might be worth a try. > > > > > > What if I'm using an ATI card? :) > > > > > > I also mentioned the softness of the picture with the PVR-250. I > > > turned off the DNR which seems to have made a noticeable improvement > > > in picture quality but did nothing for the sharpness. There are some > > > MPEG-2 tuning parameters left but I am unsure what they do. > > > > > > Mike. > > > > Have you tried increasing the bitrate? Go nuts and see if it makes a > > difference. I use 6400/8000 which is much better than the analog signal > > out of a digital satellite set top box. > > > > Use 720x576 and Stream Type: 'DVD-Special 2' in case you ever what to put > > it on a dvd. > > > > On every boot do a 'ivtvctl -c dnr_temporal=0' to turn off temporal > > filtering. > > > > One other thing I did was turn up the contrast and colour by 5%. While > > using Live TV on the PVR-x50, press 'g' for the recording controls. > > > > Paul > > well, I've got my bitrate at 6000000/8000000 already. I'm using stream type > DVD-Special 2 already. I used the temporal setting from the previous person > that posted it. > > BUT your comment about contrast and colour got me thinking. so I searched > google and found: > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Ivtvctl > > which is nice for us to have. > > then I noticed the brightness was all the way up. well, every stereophile > knows the first thing you do when you go tv shopping at a store is go into > the menu and turn the brightness and contrast down on the display TV's. > Stores always turn them all the way up to make the TV look brighter, and in > the eyes of those that don't know, "better". What it actually does is > destroy the image quality. the picture will get blury amongst other things. > so changing the brightness down to 63 seems to have fixed the softness > problem I had. Its not perfect, but now I can play with it. > > I do like being able to see the image all of a sudden shift brightness when > I do this though, kinda cool. > > anyway. I'm gunna play around with the settings ivtvctl allows to change. > I'll post my results for others to compare/argue with.
ok, everytime I change the channel the brightness/contrast settings reset. how do I store the settings in MythTV so they don't change? -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
