Teleivsion quality (esp. sports) (1 Viewer)
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Due to "hack", drivers or codecs?
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Whaddya know, Joe? I've now got a picture equal to, if not better than, my digital STB. The killer combination turned out to be about 15% the new drivers (noticeable improvement, but not very significant), 40% the nVidia codec (very significant improvement; still dark and pixelated occasionally), and 45% resolution. Forcing my video card to display at 720x576 instead of 800x600 was the final, ultimate step.
Now my only question is why I didn't find/read/hear of this earlier? Since very few CRT televisions (any?) will "natively" support 720x576, this should definitely be on the "why does my picture quality suck?" checklist.
Now my only question is why I didn't find/read/hear of this earlier? Since very few CRT televisions (any?) will "natively" support 720x576, this should definitely be on the "why does my picture quality suck?" checklist.
Hi Quiller,
You are probably still experiencing the pixelation because your bitrate is set low. I'm not sure if MP can control the quality on those cards. When I get some time in the next six months or so, I'm going give MP the capability to change the settings on all Hauppauge products. This may work for your card. Enable the quality control settings in the config. Set it to high and post your log file. I'll let you know if any quality control is happening.
You are probably still experiencing the pixelation because your bitrate is set low. I'm not sure if MP can control the quality on those cards. When I get some time in the next six months or so, I'm going give MP the capability to change the settings on all Hauppauge products. This may work for your card. Enable the quality control settings in the config. Set it to high and post your log file. I'll let you know if any quality control is happening.
PVR-150MCE bad TV-quality
Hallo
I have been watching the forum for a while to try to get some clues about my TV-card "problem"!
I will thank you all (all the forum) for many great suggestions.
My problem is like above! TV through HTPC (PVR-150MCE) gives me a dark grayish unsharp picture! (Like wathing TV with filthy sunglasses!!!). (WAF < 0)
HTPC -> TV = Composite
Windows (720x576) looks sharp, clear and colorful (relative with 32" Wide CRT). MP looks sharp, clear and colorful. Everything looks that "good" except TV-recordings!
I have tried your suggestion by upgrading the Hauppage-driver to 2.0.48......, but that causes my HTPC to hang! Back to the old 2.0.43......
Tried a few codecs (cyberlink, MPV and ATI), but they all gives the same picture. Have tried to adjust in Hauppage Tweak Tool without any better picture.
At last I tried to play my recordings from outside MP, in Windows Media player. It shows the same crappy picture. It is the recordings that are being messed up somehow!!!
Can the codec mess up those recordings before they are stored? If so, will the nVidia-codec solve this? Is this codec so much better than ATI?
Have read in another topic that Hauppage is releasing a new driver (2.7......), but I am not sure that this is the solution!
Hallo
I have been watching the forum for a while to try to get some clues about my TV-card "problem"!
I will thank you all (all the forum) for many great suggestions.
My problem is like above! TV through HTPC (PVR-150MCE) gives me a dark grayish unsharp picture! (Like wathing TV with filthy sunglasses!!!). (WAF < 0)
HTPC -> TV = Composite
Windows (720x576) looks sharp, clear and colorful (relative with 32" Wide CRT). MP looks sharp, clear and colorful. Everything looks that "good" except TV-recordings!
I have tried your suggestion by upgrading the Hauppage-driver to 2.0.48......, but that causes my HTPC to hang! Back to the old 2.0.43......
Tried a few codecs (cyberlink, MPV and ATI), but they all gives the same picture. Have tried to adjust in Hauppage Tweak Tool without any better picture.
At last I tried to play my recordings from outside MP, in Windows Media player. It shows the same crappy picture. It is the recordings that are being messed up somehow!!!
Can the codec mess up those recordings before they are stored? If so, will the nVidia-codec solve this? Is this codec so much better than ATI?
Have read in another topic that Hauppage is releasing a new driver (2.7......), but I am not sure that this is the solution!
Dragonjack:
Hello!
Have the same card, and my analogue signal is crappy from beginning, but even more crappy when I watch through the PVR-card compared to feed the TV with the antenna.
However, I got a better picture with some adjustments with this program:
http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_tweak.html
Try it, play with the settings and hopefully you'll end up happy
Hello!
Have the same card, and my analogue signal is crappy from beginning, but even more crappy when I watch through the PVR-card compared to feed the TV with the antenna.
However, I got a better picture with some adjustments with this program:
http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_tweak.html
Try it, play with the settings and hopefully you'll end up happy
Discovered that it works!!!!
Hi winux, and all of you.
At last I had the time to adjust things and to answer!
As I said in my post, I tried the Tweak tool with no result!!!
Later on I discovered that I had to reboot my HTPC for the changes to work!!! A boring piece of work wathing this!!!!
Now is the question how to do this right? Well, it is just try and watch. Big steps first, smaller later on!!!
Hi winux, and all of you.
At last I had the time to adjust things and to answer!
As I said in my post, I tried the Tweak tool with no result!!!
Later on I discovered that I had to reboot my HTPC for the changes to work!!! A boring piece of work wathing this!!!!
Now is the question how to do this right? Well, it is just try and watch. Big steps first, smaller later on!!!