Improving tv-out picture quality?

[Chris Benoit]

I use the tv-out feature of my graphics card in order to view videos on my 29'' TV.

But pixels and flaws are very noticeable.How can i improve the quality.I'm using ffdshow,dscaler and reclock,but i have not achieved anything.

Can i get some help here?

[Sirber]

We all know which graphic card you have, as well as how you plug on your tv :p

[Chris Benoit]

Well i was looking for a software based settings solution so that's y i didn't mention,but anyway,my card is a geforce go 420 mx 32mb and the connection is through an s-video cable.

[Chris Benoit]

So will i get an answer or did you just want to know what my graphics card was?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

As an experiment, rip a DVD to your hard drive - and output it to your TV. If it doesn't exhibit the same type of poor quality output, chances are quite good taht your other (presumably .AVIs) videos are not of very good quality. If the DVD video output DOES exhibit the same type of poor quality, your video card or S-Video cable may be at fault...

[Sirber]

So will i get an answer or did you just want to know what my graphics card was?Answers take time ;) You can get a software (payware) called TVTool which you can use to configure your video out better than with nvidia drivers.

[kurt]

ffdshow has some nice features like "pictureproperties", there you can brighten/colorize the video. Also the sharpen function and postprocessing (i.e spp deblocking, depends on the video) is definitely worth a try....

[Chris Benoit]

I've used tvtool.IT doesn't do anything more than nview does.FFdshow must be the solution but i don't know how to configure it.That's y i posted.

I've played around with the sliders but didn't achieve anything.

[kurt]

ok, here are my standard settings for avi files (<1000kbps), I have also an "old" nvidia card (Ti 4200, 32MB), so maybe it helps you a bit:

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/2963/image12zc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2020/image65nh.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/2645/image37fx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/4148/image43og.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

In TvTool you don't use clone-mode, right? and a resoultion of 800x600?


btw: if you still want better tv-out quality you should think about purchasing another card - Matrox would be a good choice :)

P.S: in zoomplayer/mpc i set the video renderer to overlay mixer

[HardwareGeek]

I use the tv-out feature of my graphics card in order to view videos ...Same here. I use FairUse for avi's and Shrink for, well, shrinking. And output to sdtv via an ATI card and an S-Video connection.

Artifacts are not noticeable at all using Shrink at highest compression. AVI quality degradation is slightly noticeable but watchable.

Can I ask if you use hdtv? I am not knowledgeable enuf to know if S-Video works with a hdtv.