Thanks to everyone for the info.
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:36 am, Mark L. Cukier wrote: > 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) an > >>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 > >> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >> > >>mythtv-users mailing list > >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>mythtv-users mailing list > >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org > >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > -- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users