Video adjustment on PVR350

[deja]

Hi All,

I have PVR350 video card install with Sagetv 3.
How can i improve the colors, they are to sharp and too bright.
Looks blurry...
O i did the color adjustment in sagetv but still looks blurry.

Thank you Opus4 for you last help on the remote focus..

Thank you,
Deja

[AWS]

I've had this problem since day one on my system. What I've found is that there are three places, at least, to adjust the color, saturation, hue, brightness, contrast, etc.

1.) On the TV itself
2.) Within the video card driver
2a.) With my NVIDIA driver you can adjust the overlay picture (if you use that)
2b.) and/or the full screen.
3.) Within SageTV under the color calibration.

What I do is set my TV color to all defaults/reset. Then I do the same for the video card driver. I have a dual/clone screen setup going on and I use the PC monitor so that I can read the small text. Trying to read a 12pt font on a SDTV is near impossible. Then I go into Sage and mess around with the color calibration. I adjust the picture till it's pretty close to what I like. It takes a few days because what looks good one day will sometimes not look right the day after. Jot down the values you finally get at and save them for later. After I feel I can't get it any better within Sage I go to the color adjustments on my TV. I can fine tune there easier. In the end my PC monitor picture will not be the same brightness/contrast/color/etc as my TV, but the TV looks good. The only time I really ever adjust the settings within the video card driver is if I change the output type from "auto" or "composite" to "S-Video"

It takes patience. And then do it all again after updating the drivers.

[pcuoco]

First thing you have to do is calibrate your monitor using something like Digital Video Essentials. Once your monitor is correct, you then need to use Sage's source calibration to set your recording levels to your taste. Make sure you try several different channels when calibrating to try and find a happy medium.

Are you using the 350's output? I would point you to the color calibration guide on the Sage Community Wiki, but it doesn't really apply with a PVR 350's output since it requires FFDShow.

If you're not using the 350's output, then definitely check out the wiki
http://www.sage-community.org/
and also make sure you're using a good Video Decoder like the latest Nvidia decoder (this doesn't apply if you do use the 350's output.)

[deja]

Thank you AWS and pcuoco,
I wish Hauppauge would do some thing to help out the people that have the PVR350.
Make a driver or some kind of calibration tool that would help out.. Not like i have try, I have move the sharp ajustment to 0 or 250 nothing help.

If any body have a fix for this please update this post.

Thank you all
-Deja

[deja]

Originally Posted by deja

Thank you AWS and pcuoco,
I wish Hauppauge would do some thing to help out the people that have the PVR350.
Make a driver or some kind of calibration tool that would help out.. Not like i have try, I have move the sharp ajustment to 0 or 250 nothing help.

If any body have a fix for this please update this post.

Thank you all
-Deja

Also when i try to make any changes in SageTv color calibration the
Sharp ajustment does nothing. I can move it all the way up or down but nothing changes on the the tv.

Any ideal on why this ajustment doesnt work?
Every thing also does work, you can see the changes when you move it up
or down..

Thank you all for your help.
-Deja

[deja]

Originally Posted by deja

Also when i try to make any changes in SageTv color calibration the
Sharp ajustment does nothing. I can move it all the way up or down but nothing changes on the the tv.

Any ideal on why this ajustment doesnt work?
Every thing also does work, you can see the changes when you move it up
or down..

Thank you all for your help.
-Deja

Can anyone help me with the sharp ajustment?
Read above..
Thank you