Re: TV picture very poor in MCE

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Well, some codecs are part of the decoder, but in my case, there were some
files that wouldn't play until I installed a *separate* codec package. Once
I did that, the quality of playback of my recoded TV noticeably improved. I
wasn't trying to improve the recoded TV quality, it was a side-effect of
something else I was trying to do.

"JW" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The Decoder is part of the Codec (which is short for Coder Decoder).
>
> "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3jjlqkFq304fU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Seriously. Then again, maybe my TV is crappy :-)
>>
>> Right now I'm watching TV recorded at one of the lower qualities, and it
>> looks better than when I watch normal TV on the TV.
>>
>> And the solution wasn't the decoder, it was installing a codec. I
>> originally installed it because I couldn't watch something else I had
>> recorded, then I noticed the recorded TV was a whole lot better.
>>
>> The live TV has always been better than straight to the TV, too.
>>
>> There are just way too many combinations of hardware and software
>> combinations. It might take some fiddling to find the one that works best
>> for you, but when it works right, it's good.
>>
>> "David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]" <dbartosik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23jxijQmhFHA.3436@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Really? My Live TV Picture in MCE is real grainy, like a bad reception
>>> (but it's Cable) - so I have to switch off MCE to use the real TV to get
>>> the normal Cable picture.
>>>
>>> David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
>>> www.publishermvps.com
>>> www.davidbartosik.com
>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's not MCE itself. My TV picture is better when I run it through MCE
>>>> than when I watch TV normally. It could be an issue with your video
>>>> card and how it's interacting with your monitor, or it could be the
>>>> video card, or it could be something to do with the DVD decoder, which
>>>> the TV playback also uses. While my TV watching was fine, some of my
>>>> recorded TV was a bit jerky until I updated my DVD codecs. Don't ask me
>>>> specifically what I did, though. It was a while back and I was doing a
>>>> lot of fiddling with the settings/codecs/drivers.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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