On 12/29/06, Rudy Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > To add to the previous email, i just realised the card seems to be OK, > > as when i load an ivtv driver with no Samsung tuner support, although > > i cannot tune, the tuned channels (warm reboot) are fully stable. > > > > So its the tuner control that makes the troubles (image wise). > > > > Summary: > > I can do either of the following two: > > - have good image (but no tuning) > > - ability to tune (but unwatchable image quality) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rudy > > > > > > Sigh, > > Its been awhile since i did a full fresh mythtv setup. Grumble. > > Main problem solved, ivtv bug confirmed: > - image quality is now good, bad image quality was caused by scaling to > 480x480 > (I've never understood this low default setting in myth. Changing that > to PAL full format, and i had good image. Next setting the bitrate to > some sensible quality and image quality became good.) > > As usual, once an ivtv parameter is set, it remains set until you reboot > the card (hard power off). > > So for ivtv the scaling problem is still to be solved. (not that i > personally care too much, i never scale down. HDD space is cheap, and on > bigger screens you want to have high quality recordings).
This is a known issue with sliced vbi and scaling, see [1]. Greets Sander [1] http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#Closed_caption_.28vbi.29_with_non_default_reolutions _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
