What kind of scaling issues?
Well, I had a Samsung 42" that I was trying to hook it up to via HDMI. It's native resolution was 1024 x 768 which is 4:3 AR and just looked ridiculous on a screen that really has 16:9 dimensions. Don't know why you would offer that sort of native resolution (as the only option) on a widescreen display..... beats me, probably has something to do with the price tag. The playback was fine at this resolution (no jitter / drop, smooth image across all formats), but nice and squished, as you could imagine. So I tried using 1280 x 720 which fixed the AR but resulted in overscan that needed scaling. As soon as I did this, the jitter was terrible, indicating some sort of performance problem. And it was across all formats - 720p, 1080p, 576i, 1080i. Tried enabling and disabling GPU scaling in Catalyst, but no difference, and GPU utilisation remained the same at around 20% in both cases (which is why I think its a driver / config problem). It looked to me like scaling on the GPU wasn't working at all, and it was probably the CPU trying to do the scaling. Was running CCC 9.5. I resolved it by getting the TV to do the scaling.
for your answer, I will cope with 1.0.0 as long as possible and maybe buy a new HTPC later.If it were me I'd replace the entire system.
I've read this entire thread and done some testing and MP must have an issue with interlaced content.
Hardware:
Intel E8500
9300 GPU on board
In Australia most of our free to air HD TV is a simucast of SD. Did a test on live TV.
Same channel content (SBS) HD-720p ~50fps, SD-576i~25fps.
720p looks great, 576i looks crap.
How can inadequate hardware make HD look better than SD?
It cant.
Its not a hardware issue as tourettes post #54 (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...-under-1-0-1-0-a-58486/index6.html#post422879) in this thread states.
I've checked CPU & GPU usage - they are idling....
There is a bigger issue here than 1080i, its all interlaced content.
So you're comparing the picture quality of your TV provider's box to that of your HVR-2200 via MediaPortal, right? My first question would be WHY would you care when you can receive the same broadcast in 720p which you said: looks great. Keep in mind, cable-TV doesn't limit themselves to broadcast standards... your HVR-2200 does.The picture quality is far inferior to that of the same 576i channel provided by my pay TV provider direct from providers box to TV.
I fail to see how my hardware could not produce a decent 576i output.