Poor video quality with live TV (1 Viewer)

[patrick]

Todd,

Have you tried the hauppauge tweak tool?
http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_tweak.html

There is a line in your log that says setvideobitrate min:100 max:300
I do not know if that is saying this is what you card is set to,
but if it is then the quality would be low.
Mine is set to min:8000 max:12000 VBR.

Also, not sure if it still happens much, but sometimes the hauppauge
settings would revert to defaults after a PC restart.

HTH,
patrick

 

[infinite.loop]

Any suggestions on how to obtain decent video quality when using a hapuug. pvr-250?

Video Codec: Roxio MPEG2 Video Decoder

try MPV as VideoCodec for Televison, DVD and Movie in configuration

 

[scoop]

Hi,

As patrick already outlined, your logfile shows that the bitrate of your card is set wrong. So it's clearly an issue with the quality settings of your tvcard. Make a screenshot of the Quality settings tab from your tvcard, and post the contents of your card_cardX.xml from the database/ directory.

FWIW, my PVR500MCE works as expected with MP (and with high bitrates the quality is very good) so this must be a configuration issue.

Kind regards,
Michel