Live TV vs. Scheduled Recording - Different Color Settings

[Gozar]

Quick background p4 2.4ghz, 768mb RAM, FX5200, PVR-150

This is probably a dumb question, but I need to ask it because I've noticed a difference in the colour quality of mpegs when watching something which was pre-set to record, vs an unpaused livetv feed.

Are there different settings for these recording options? I am just setting up GBPVR, and was using the pause feature of Live tv to configure how I wanted the colour settings. I got it exactly the way I wanted it with livetv. To be absolutely explicit, I'd pause a show for a minute, and then resume it to see the quality of what was recorded during "pause" mode. If I didn't like a colour or brightness aspect, I'd adjust the settings and try again. As I said, I had it exactly the way I wanted it.

I preset some shows to record later that night, and when viewing them the next day, the colours on them were terrible. The picture was too bright, the colours washed out etc...

So here's my question: Are there different configurations for the video settings for these two recording options? Is there an option to configure the picture quality for livetv, or does it default to a particular setting?

Thanks!

-Chris

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how have you need adjusting the colours?

[Gozar]

I know I said colours in my post, but really, I was speaking to the settings in direct.ini with brightness, contrast, and white balance. Livetv, when played back, looks perfect, but prescheduled recordings are way overbright.

I'll play around with it a little bit more when I get home tonight. I noticed that livetv didn't change much when I adjusted these settings, and wondered if they were on a different config set than the other. I think a better practice is to adjust my picture, per the results of pre-scheduled recordings, and then see how livetv looks.

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I know I said colours in my post, but really, I was speaking to the settings in direct.ini with brightness, contrast, and white balance. Livetv, when played back, looks perfect, but prescheduled recordings are way overbright.

Its probably worth leaving those settings at their defaults, and trying to adjust with the Hauppauge TweakTool: http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_tweak.html

I'll play around with it a little bit more when I get home tonight. I noticed that livetv didn't change much when I adjusted these settings, and wondered if they were on a different config set than the other.

I cant think of any reason they'd be any different.