How can I see if TV picture is MPEG2 or MPEG4? (1 Viewer)

[steinje]

I have bad picture quality on my FireDTV with MediaPortal. If I adjust the MPEG2 brightness control in MP it effects the TV picture, but if I adjust the brightness of the H.264 properties of the CoreAVC, nothing happens to the TV picture.

How can I confirm that CoreAVC is used to control my TV picture and not some other codec?

Any ideas how to get as crisp pictures as I did with the box from the cable company (Canal Digital Sagem HD PVR)?
Now I have to much noise in the picture.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Use alt-enter to view MP in windowed mode, get and run graphstudio, connect to remote graph with TV\video playing, this will then show you which codecs are being used.

 

[steinje]

Hi, I get this, please see attached picture. How can I make it use H.264? What can be wrong?

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Digital Everywhere Support Report: (1. 0. 8. 0)
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Generated on (Y/M/d): 2009.04.17

FireDTV / FloppyDTV devices:
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devices found: 1

Status for device 1
Model : FireDTV C/CI
GUID : 0x0012870036002F4E
HW Ver.: 01.36.02
FW Ver.: 2.4.3 Build 60740
Driver : 4.8.0

Frontend Status:
Power Supply: 12.00V
1394 Bus: 11.64V
Frequency.: 378000 kHz, Sig.Str.: 100%, BER: 0
Locked : YES

CAM Module: Conax Conditional Access

Windows System Information:
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OS Path: C:\WINDOWS

OS Version:
Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 3 (Build: 2600)
Media Center Edtion

OHCI Controller:
Manufacturer: Texas Instruments
Description: Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

Windows Hotfixes:
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KB896626: not installed
KB885222: not installed
Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - installed
KB919803: not installed

MCE Plugin:
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No Plugin Version found!
No Service found!
Program files path: 'C:\Program Files'


FireDTV Transponder List:
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No Transponder Lists found!

FireDTV Tools:
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Common Interface
Path: C:\Program Files\FireDTV\Tools\CommonInterface.exe
Product Ver: 1.20.0.0
File Ver: 1.20.0.0

 

[david81]

h.264 is MPEG-4.
Your file is MPEG-2.