1080i output, from HdHomeRun recording

[mattbrad2]

Running the HdHomerun is great. I'm really loving it. BUT, what are people doing about the horrible output of 1080i and all its interlaced glory? The 720p programming from ABC and FOX look great on my HD display but am I missing something here? Is my TV supposed to handle this interlaced signal better or something? I dont think I'm supposed to be seeing this combing effect. I've tried some deinterlacing schemes with VLC but the only one that doesnt tax the entire CPU is "drop" and thats making it stutter a little. What are other people doing?

[blade]

What video card and decoder are you using?

[lobosrul]

I havent messed around with the settings in VLC player. I use it for testing sometimes though (if something wont playback in VLC, chances are it wont anywhere). VLC is a standalone player, you cannot use it with any external codecs/filters like you can with Sage or WMP.

I use a hardare assisted decoder with Sage (Purevideo), interlaced content looks great. It also takes far less cpu power to decode HDTV, compared to VLC which is software only.

[stanger89]

Yeah, I'm a bit confused how VLC plays into this.

[Keenan]

VLC is used to enable you to see what channels and sub-channels you're getting with the HDHR. With that information you can set up your channel listing within Sage. I'm not sure why mattbrad2 is using VLC as his primary playback application, at least it sounds like that's what he's doing.

[mattbrad2]

Sorry for the confusion. This post was moved from the "HDHomeRun answer to QAM thread." Make a long story short - HDHomeRun uses VLC for its playback. It gets hooked through SageTV from what I understand so you cant use any hardware filters. Your stuck with what VLC gives you. Its the same story either way though. The basic question is how do people play interlaced (1080i) video on a TV set (LCD, plasma, whatever) that is natively progressive? The TV set doesnt know how to deinterlace the signal coming in. I imagine sets with built in HD tuners do this deinterlacing for you but for the tunerless TV's how is this done?

[Polypro]

Matt,

Sage and the HDHR don't use VLC at all. VLC is just the preferred app to use when you're not running any type of HTPC app. If you've already set up your decoders in Sage for NTSC and DVD...you shouldn't have to touch them to watch Sage recorded, HDHR supplied programming. The PureVideo (In my case) decoders process the data and send it to your display device...it's all progressive when coming from a computer (In the general sense).

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[mattbrad2]

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up. Since I'm using an ATI 9800 Pro, I dont suppose PureVideo would do me any good. Does ATI have an answer to PureVideo? I know about AVIVO (sp?) but I think thats reserved for the higher end ATI cards.

[Polypro]

PureVideo will work with your card, it may just not use all the features that are available to an nVIDIA card. Try the Trial

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