On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:13, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:42:59 +0200, Matt SF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > wow I guess it pays to not only RTFM but RTFM very carefully :) > > I spotted this old post in looking for ways to improve the image quality > > of my PVR-350... > > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/112094 > > > > note.. "NTSC format at 29.97fps: Full D1: 720x480, MPEG1: 352x240" > > > > Sort of begs the question, just what is the MPEG-2 on the board used for? > > I guess just for putting your home video etc. into the S-video input. > > > > Am I to understand the PVR-350 takes the image from the TV tuner, > > captures it at MPEG-1 and then converts it to MPEG-2 then outputs it? > > It probably means that it will only record in MPEG-1 up to 352x240 (which > IIRC is the max res for MPEG-1, but I could bw wrong), but MPEG-2 up to > 720x480. > > / Niklas
also, i believe mpeg-1 is better suited for low resolution encoding than mpeg-2, which is why it defaults to mpeg-1 for those lower resolutions. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
