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<blockquote data-quote="Nicodemuz" data-source="post: 175668" data-attributes="member: 10942">MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3 with SVN from mid/late JulyMediaPortal Skin: Blue WideWindows Version: Win XP Home SP2CPU Type: AMD Athlon 2400+Video Card: NVidia Geforce 55001. TV Card: ZapTV Mini1. TV Card Type: DVB-tRemote: MCE remoteTV: 46&quot; LCDTV - HTPC Connection: DVI-to-HDMI, running at 1920x1080@50iThe picture quality is really blurry when compared to other applications like the one provided with the DVB-t adapter.Replaying the recordings made by MP in another application still yields blurry image quality so it seems to me that MP does something to the received stream, like re-encoding to an inferior rate/format BOTH before showing the image and recording it.Recordings are also really small, less than 400MB for half an hour of TV but the bitrate of the TV-channel would give me larger recordings - on my Set Top Box recording the same channel for an hour gives me files at approx 1.5GB.And I am unable to record more than half an hour or watch more than half an hour because the TV halts after between 10 and 30 minutes. Choosing a new channel often gives picture back but not always.De-interlace is set to None (since I use interlaced signal to TV and the channel received is interlaced).Picture quality is set to highest for recordings.Timeshift is set off.And way around this or do I need to look for another solution to get picture quality?On a 46&quot; LCD 2 meters away it is very obvious that the quality is bad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nicodemuz, post: 175668, member: 10942"] [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 0.2.3 with SVN from mid/late July [b]MediaPortal Skin[/b]: Blue Wide [b]Windows Version[/b]: Win XP Home SP2 [b]CPU Type[/b]: AMD Athlon 2400+ [b]Video Card[/b]: NVidia Geforce 5500 [b]1. TV Card[/b]: ZapTV Mini [b]1. TV Card Type[/b]: DVB-t [b]Remote[/b]: MCE remote [b]TV[/b]: 46" LCD [b]TV - HTPC Connection[/b]: DVI-to-HDMI, running at 1920x1080@50i The picture quality is really blurry when compared to other applications like the one provided with the DVB-t adapter. Replaying the recordings made by MP in another application still yields blurry image quality so it seems to me that MP does something to the received stream, like re-encoding to an inferior rate/format BOTH before showing the image and recording it. Recordings are also really small, less than 400MB for half an hour of TV but the bitrate of the TV-channel would give me larger recordings - on my Set Top Box recording the same channel for an hour gives me files at approx 1.5GB. And I am unable to record more than half an hour or watch more than half an hour because the TV halts after between 10 and 30 minutes. Choosing a new channel often gives picture back but not always. De-interlace is set to None (since I use interlaced signal to TV and the channel received is interlaced). Picture quality is set to highest for recordings. Timeshift is set off. And way around this or do I need to look for another solution to get picture quality? On a 46" LCD 2 meters away it is very obvious that the quality is bad. [/QUOTE]

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