Re: Poor picture quality using Satellite box in MCE
- From: Il Principe <IlPrincipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:47:33 -0700
thanks Dana for your reply.
I am using brand new cables and have tried both S-video and Composite, but
the quality is the same, i.e. very bad. Once again, if I connect the very
same cables to the TV instead of the MCE PC, the quality I see is almost
perfect, so I am assuming STB output and cables are fine. Which leaves us
with the Tuner.
I have a AverMedia Hybrid TV Tuner Card, A16C (DVB-T, Pal/Secam/FM).
The graphic card is Nvidia 6600 and it has two outputs, one VGA and one DVI.
The TV input is DVI. The image works when I use the VGA output into the DVI
input (and the PC recognise the TV), but nothing if I use the DVI output into
the DVI input
Thanks for you help.
"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:
I would suspect your tuner card, or its drivers. Since you're coming in via.
sVideo or composite from the STB, you'll probably never get as good a signal
as in the demo videos. One thing that might help would be to use high
quality (and short) cables from the STB to the tuner.
As for the graphics card output, which card do you have, and which version
of the drivers? Generally if you connect to the DVI output, the card should
recognize there's a TV there and enable the signal. However, you might be
able to enable that output from within the drivers dialog.
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"Il Principe" <IlPrincipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have just bought a Sony Vaio RC202 with Media Centre and I have problems
with the video quality
The video source is a Satellite (Sky) box and I am using a Scart output
from
the box and either S-Video or Composite into the PC tuner card. The signal
from the Satellite is crystal clear if I connect directly STB and TV, but
if
I go via the PC Media Centre the output is very bad..lots of blue, almost
like an old VHS tape.
On the other hand, when I watch some of the sample videos even in HD, the
quality is perfect, so I am assuming that the Video card output is working
fine. I should however point out that for some reason I can only see the
image on the TV if I connect VGA (PC) to DVI (TV), but nothing if I use
the
DVI output from the Video card. Additionally, I can't get the 16:9 format,
and the video seems to show only in 3:4 (which to be honest is the
original
aspect ratio of the satellite signal).
I find it strange that, while I can import video on the PC using 1394 at
perfect quality, there are difficulties in connecting a live video signal.
Maybe there are cards outthere with an RGB/Scart or DVI input? But I am
not
sure this is the problem.
Can anyone help?
thanks
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