Quality of PVR-?50 hardware encoder is very poor and it requires very high bit rates for decent quality (about 6Mb/s). Software MPEG2 encoders are much better, in Windows world CCE and TmpGenc are very good(they can also run on Linux with wine). On linux mpeg2enc is also very good. I always reencode using software encoder. If I need DVD compatibility, I use mpeg2enc and result is about 600M for 45 min show, resolution 720x480. If I don't care about DVD compatibility then I encode into xvid : about 300M for 45 min, resolution 640x480.
On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:16, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 28/04/05 15:54, Jason McLeod typed ... > > > How low of a resolution is too low? > > How low of a bitrate for the video is too low? > > Well there's synchronicity in action! > > I was just about to post this and a related question. I'm running my > PVR-350 with fairly high (normally) res. PAL settings, and a bitrate of > ~6200 somethings. I get images of ~2.0-2.2 Gb per hour. > > Now, I just downloaded [bittorrent] an episode of something I missed. > The AVI's ~364 Mb for the, I guess, ~43 mins., but is, whem played > through MythVideo, of comparable quality to the stuff I record at 6x the > size! > > Is it possible to tune the PVR to get, if not that small, then > smaller but decent recordings? More usefully for me, can anyone > recommend a codec/encoder that'd generate small & decent files (maybe > even SVCD format) for Myth archiving? _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
