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On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Matthew Valites wrote: > >> I've got a Gentoo box running mythTV with a WinTV-D, which I'm using >> as a straight bt878 card. I'm not all that excited by the quality. >> Actually, I'm a bit disappointed. Also, the s-video out on the >> motherboard doesn't seem to overscan enough to fill the screen on the >> TV. There are vertical black bands on the left and right. I haven't >> figured out how to fix that. What are you using for TV out, if >> anything? > > I'm using a Shuttle-pc, with the onboard s-video savage out. I have > the same lack of overscanning problems and have posted a few times to > the mythtv users list to find solutions. However, it seems that > functionality has not been added to the driver. I agree that it makes > watching very poor, but I'm hoping in the new release of the savage > driver it will have support for overscanning. Oh! I have the same (a Shuttle with Savage). I've got an SK-41G. Are new Savage drivers due out soon? A very funny thing: I discovered that using the S-video to RCA-video adapter that came with my WinTV card on the Shuttle really washed the colors out, so they were almost B&W. When I switched and used the adapter that came with my Shuttle, the colors suddenly came back. Of course I still have contrast and overscan issues. I connect directly via SVideo now. Re: 4 gb vs 10 gb files: Could it be Animation vs live action recording? I think animation would compress much better than live action. Low motion vs. action would also affect compression. -- Bush/Cheney '04: Thanks for not paying attention.
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