mrwester wrote: > The blurring you are referring to is deinterlacing artifacts and has nothing > to do with the capture card- rather the video card/display.
Thanks for that diagnosis. I've complained about this before, and I've certainly heard of deinterlacing artifacts, but I wasn't sure whether tha'ts what I was seeing. By the way, I think the implication from your statemet is that some video cards might do better than others w.r.t. deinterlacing artifacts, no? Is there a better alternative to the FX5200 w.r.t. eliminating deinterlacing artifacts. Perhaps the 350? I've tried playing with a bunch of different settings, but none have made much of an improvement. I would categorize the sports as "barely watchable", which is prompting me to have a "pass-through" mode (an a/b switch) so that I can watch football "raw from the cable" instead of through the PVR. I was hoping the 350 (mainly via the TV out) might provide a little better picture. > > You will probably hear more to the contrary from this list as this question > has been asked before, but in my hands, the TV-out of the PVR-350 cannot be > beat for SD tv viewing... When I ran the TV-out of my PVR-350 I saw no > deinterlacing artifacts and no stutter on the CNN ticker. Ahhh... that's what I'm hoping for. This is exactly what I was asking above. My machine is an > XP2900+ and since adding an HDTV tuner I've switched to a FX5200 via DVI to > a 1280x768 LCD panel running at native resolution. While HDTV looks great, > running at about 65% CPU without XvMC for a 1080i stream, in my opinion the > TV-out of the PVR-350 offers better SD picture without deinterlacing > artifacts than the DVI out of my FX5200. Sounds good. My TV is, of course, SD. > As far as issues when adding another card, if you're staying within the > Hauppauge PVR-XXX world of IVTV, it should be pretty straightforward. I would think so. But I seem to see lots of stuff along the lines of "I added a second card and my machine went belly up...". Thanks for the reply. Cheers, john _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users