[OldOne]

Hi,

i finally replaced my old xbox with a ION2 HTPC.
The picture does really look all grainy and bad,
even the menus, compared to the xbox.
The PC is connected via HDMI to the TV.
Picture quality is even on FullHD Demos bad.
I did follow most of the howtos here in the forum,
and I guess it has something to do with the xserver configuration

Also my 4:3 videos are displayed as widescreen
and 16:9 are displayerd als as widescreen.
One time i restarted xbmc and the aspect ratio was fine,
but after the next restart is displays the videos in the wrong format.

What can cause this?


The debug logfile can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/FiAJDhgk


My Setup
Sony KDL-W4000 100Hz
Nvidia ION2 (asus at5ion-t)
Ubuntu 10.04
xbmc from the main ppa repo
nividia driver from the a ppa repo, it is the 256 driver

my xorg.conf

[CODE]
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoVesaModes, NoXServerModes, NoVertRefreshCheck, NoHorizSyncCheck"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-1"
Option "ModeDebug" "true"
Option "HWCursor" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen"
Device "nvidia"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1920x1080_60_0" "1920x1080_24"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "false"
EndSection


# --- Modes in ModePool for SONY TV XV (DFP-1) ---
# "nvidia-auto-select" : 1920 x 1080 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1920x1080" : 1920 x 1080 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1920x1080_60" : 1920 x 1080 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1920x1080_60_0" : 1920 x 1080 @ 59.94/60 Hz (CEA-861B Format 16)
# "1920x1080_50" : 1920 x 1080 @ 50.0 Hz
# "1920x1080_24" : 1920 x 1080 @ 23.97/24 Hz (CEA-861B Format 32)
# "1920x1080_60i" : 1920 x 1080 @ 59.94/60 Hz (CEA-861B Format 5)
# "1920x1080_50i" : 1920 x 1080 @ 50 Hz Interlace (CEA-861B Format 20)
# "1280x1024" : 1280 x 1024 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1280x1024_60" : 1280 x 1024 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1280x720" : 1280 x 720 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1280x720_60" : 1280 x 720 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1280x720_60_0" : 1280 x 720 @ 59.94/60 Hz (CEA-861B Format 4)
# "1280x720_50" : 1280 x 720 @ 50.0 Hz
# "1024x768" : 1024 x 768 @ 60.0 Hz
# "1024x768_60" : 1024 x 768 @ 60.0 Hz
# "800x600" : 800 x 600 @ 60.3 Hz
# "800x600_60" : 800 x 600 @ 60.3 Hz
# "720x576" : 720 x 576 @ 50 Hz (CEA-861B Format 18)
# "720x576_50" : 720 x 576 @ 50 Hz (CEA-861B Format 18)
# "720x576_50i" : (1440)x 576 @ 50 Hz Interlace (CEA-861B Format 22)
# "720x480" : 720 x 480 @ 59.94/60 Hz (CEA-861B Format 3)
# "720x480_60" : 720 x 480 @ 59.94/60 Hz (CEA-861B Format 3)
# "720x480_60i" : (1440)x 480 @ 59.94/60 Hz Interlace (CEA-861B Format 7)
# "640x480" : 640 x 480 @ 59.94/60 Hz Interlace (CEA-861B Format 1)
# "640x480_60" : 640 x 480 @ 59.94/60 Hz Interlace (CEA-861B Format 1)

[/CODE


EDIT: well i have to go back a step, did some more testing and playing with setting,
HD picture is nice, still some mpeg artefacts. SD picture is also ok, but still looks worse than on the old Xbox.
think its ok, earlier it really look like shit.