On Friday 09 December 2005 00:27, Paul Andreassen wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 01:31 am, Steve Adeff wrote: > > 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? > > These setting are stored in the database for each channel. You have to set > them individually with 'g' or update the database. Mythweb has a page with > channel configuration which you could use . > > Paul
cool, and I assume when you make the per channel changes with 'G' they get saved to the database for future use? Will it affect only the channel on that specific tuner? -- thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users