Hi Mike, Hmm... Well, I'd never buy a Radio Shack 'noise injector' ;), but I do have a high-quality RF amp kicking about that I'll hook up. I had assumed that since xawtv displayed a good picture, my signal strength was fine, but perhaps this isn't really so... An interesting suggestion. Thanks, I'll let you know if it makes the difference. Cheers, Pat -----Original Message----- From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wood Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:54 AM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Interlace Noise (field swapping?) on Pinnacle PCTV I own the same card as you, and found that my picture quality was pretty poor until I hooked up one those radio shack cable TV amplifiers. The problem wasn't very pronounced in fbtv, but when I encoded mpegs/divx's it was fairly noticeable. Try going and picking on of these things up, and if it doesn't solve your problem you have 15 days or so in which to return it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <video@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:43 AM Subject: RE: Interlace Noise (field swapping?) on Pinnacle PCTV > Aha. That's what I think too. :) > > The question I now need to answer is: If it isn't interlace noise, > what is it? > > Anyone have any ideas? I'm going to try to grab some raw frames to > see what it looks like un-encoded. > > Regards, > Pat > > -----Original Message----- > From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Boicey > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:40 AM > To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Interlace Noise (field swapping?) on Pinnacle PCTV > > > video@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > It's a short clip, but you can clearly see these lines, even with > > mpeg1 encoding.. Can anyone compare this to thier results, and let > > me > > > know if this is typical? > > That doesn't look like interlacing to me, it looks way too coarse. > > Interlacing lines are much much finer, more or less one scan line > high on a 640x480 capture for NTSC... > > I'll email you a picture of "typical" interlace issues. > > -- > Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. > Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@xxxxxxx > ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/ > "So Hungry... can't eat car..." - Homer > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
