<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
MacNean Tyrrell wrote:<br><br>> I have a nvidia geforce 5200, using svideo out. Mythtv looks sharp<br>> and very nice looking. However playback is still not that great. Not<br>> really sharp like the menu. I've played with the XV picture color
<br>> controls, and tried kernel, bob, and liner deinterlacing techniques<br>> and nothing looks as sharp as that. Is it because it's deinterlacing<br>> the video? or because of the ivtv driver for the 2 pvr 250's i have?
<br><br>In a manner of speaking. It's likely the NTSC--both your PVR-250's<br>recording NTSC and your video card outputting NTSC. You can fix the<br>video card outputting NTSC by using a better connection (like<br>DVI/VGA/Component), but can only fix the PVR-250's recording NTSC by
<br>upgrading to high-def capture and playback.</blockquote><div><br>
So playback could look better over DVI, that would be nice.
So how do you go to high def capture, and isn't there only like 6
channels in High Def, i have HD on my cable box, but only Fox, CBS,
NBC, ABC, TNT, ESPN, and one other channel come in HD, so wouldn't
High-def capture capture at the same things for the other channels as
the PVr-250's? Or is there a card out there that captures regular
tv better? Also, i was thinking that a better ivtv driver, than
perhaps the one i'm using, would actually look beter, Like it
seems my old Tivo (i have the original with no subscription) looks
better than a lot of recordings of my pvr-250's.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I've seen 5200 with dvi outs (like this, but this is 5500,<br>> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130197)">
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130197)</a>, i<br>> have a 52" lg dlp tv with dvi input, my cable and my dvd player go to<br>> the 2 composite inputs, would getting this video card could i then run
<br>> it in progressive so no deinterlacing required?<br><br>You will want to deinterlace all interlaced video you pass over the DVI<br>output. Normally, your TV would deinterlace the NTSC and any interlaced<br>ATSC video coming in through its tuner/component/S-Video/composite
<br>inputs, but it simply displays the DVI signal as input. So, if you<br>don't deinterlace, you'll see interlacing artifacts since your TV is not<br>interlaced. The problem is the interlaced input--all your recordings<br>
off PVR-x50's are interlaced because NTSC is interlaced.</blockquote><div><br>
Than i'm confused, my TV can display 1080i and 720p (480p and others,
but those are the two highest resolutions), so i thought 1080i was
interlaced display, so if the video going over dvi was interlaced
wouldn't that show fine as long as the dvi select was for 1080i?
I'll admit i'm a bit slow when it comes to all this stuff with HighDef
resolutions between tv and computers, so thanks for the help.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely, <br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell