Thanks for the quote, and yes I am using HVR-1600, however the CX18 driver currently does not support ATSC http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18
I have reduced the video_bitrate and video_peak_bitrate from 6000000 and 8000000 and results are better now. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Russell Treleaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dejan Tolj > > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:56 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [ivtv-users] CX18-Video compression > > > > > > > > My understanding is that the TV-tuner built in mpeg > > compression will take care of compressing streaming videos to > > harddrive, right?wrong? > > > > I ran into a situation where I saved 1 h of content and it > > ate up to 6GB of hd space. > > > > doing a simple file type look up on my file this is what I get: > > test: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex > > > > which dosnt differ very much from real compressed mpegs > > real.mpg: MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex > > > > Does anybody know if this is the job of a PVR or the tv-tuner? > > > > Cheers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv> -users > > > > I am guessing you are using WinTV-HVR-1600 or similar > The following quote is straight from the product's webpage. > > "Digital ATSC HD TV features > ATSC over-the-air digital TV receiver built-in. Supports all ATSC > formats, up to the high definition 1080i format! > Record ATSC digital TV to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. > TV recordings will typically consume 5 Gb of disk space per hour for > ATSC high definition." > http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr1600.html > > > > Sincerely, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
