Quality of live tv vs recorded tv on WMP10

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Posted by oholic on October 26, 2006, 10:56 am

Hello.
I dont know who to blaim here. I have a PVR 150 on MCE 2005 & using Nvidia
Purevideo.
When watching live TV , quality is not good (smearing and ghosts).
If I record a show and watch it using WMP10 outside MCE it has amazing
quality while still lousy inside MCE.
So I figured the input has good quality and the MCE decoder has a problem.
DVDs and DIVXes are ok.

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Andrei, Israel.

Posted by JW on October 26, 2006, 11:22 am

When using Media Player to play a recording are you using VMR rendering or
Overlay rendering and do you have hardware acceleration enabled?
What are the specs of your graphics card and what driver release are you
using for it?

> Hello.
> I dont know who to blaim here. I have a PVR 150 on MCE 2005 & using Nvidia
> Purevideo.
> When watching live TV , quality is not good (smearing and ghosts).
> If I record a show and watch it using WMP10 outside MCE it has amazing
> quality while still lousy inside MCE.
> So I figured the input has good quality and the MCE decoder has a problem.
> DVDs and DIVXes are ok.
> Any idea ?
> Thanks,
> Andrei, Israel.

Posted by Lucky03 on October 28, 2006, 6:08 am

I have almost the same problem. The only difference is my play of recorded
programs is excellent even in MCE. Put lousy live. and tha is when I have
my recorder setting set for fair. It doesnt seem to matter what my record
setting is, It can be set to fair, or best, the play back is always excellent
digital quality, although there is a significant difference in the size of
the saved file. Typically a one hour program on my MCE when set to fair is
about 3 gig and Best is 7 gig. But no discernable difference in quality that
I can tell. But live playback in MCE sucks.

Anybody, know the reason?

Lucky

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