Popcorn Hour Envy

[mvallevand]

I'm not a web guy but here is a page with the four images (I haven't added any patch yet). You will see the original JPEG, and the captured svideo from the PCH, the MVP in the PCH MODE, and finally the MVP in emulation mode.

http://mvallevand.googlepages.com/pch.html

Martin

[sub]

If you do a Start -> Run, then execute "%TEMP%\pch.jpg" it'll show you the picture it supplied to the Popcorn Hour.

Here is one of mine, and is pretty much what I see on the PH. I definitely dont have the rough text yours is showing.

[sub]

I suspect its something to do with the PH having poor image scaling. You may need to tweak the index.aspx.cs 'user agent' string that gets passed to GB-PVR so that it doesnt do any scaling for you. (I'm on PAL so have a different resolution)

[mvallevand]

That is my original with 3 analog captures on my HVR 1600. But I get the same difference on my SD TV. I will try the change after dinner.

Martin

[sub]

If you look at http://www.gbpvr.com/pch2.avi (5MB), you'll see what I get on the PH as captured on a HVR1800.

The capturing and coversion to xvid softens the picture a little, but you should be able to see that my text is better than your screen captures.

[jksmurf]

Sorry, but mine (without a PCH, but using the mvpmc PCH dongle on the MVP) is definitely "consierably uglier" than any of those.

Maybe it it because I have an MVP plugged into an HDTV.... it's like a poor quality scan blown up, you can see the cloudy pixels around the text. Problem is I'd need to take a digital camera to it to capture it... :-)

k.

[sub]

Did you try that patch from the last page and setting <PCHImageQuality>100</PCHImageQuality>? I'd be interested to hear if it makes any difference for you.

[mvallevand]

I updated the files on the link http://mvallevand.googlepages.com/pch.html and the second file is now the Syabas recommended 415 for NTSC and the third is now the default 496. Sub, does this need something from the patch to tweak it?

Martin

[sub]

Try editing index.aspx.cs, and comment out this line:

Code:

//line = "Syabas/x/14-POP Firefox/0.8.0+ (gaya1 TV Res720x576;   Browser Res624x496-32bits;   Res720x576;)";

Unfortunately my test TV doesnt do NTSC so dont have any easy way to test this myself.

[mvallevand]

Commenting it out I got exactly the same result which isn't surprising because when I sniffed it it was the same as I changed it to, 720x480 and 624x416-32bits

Martin