On 12/2/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > > >I got my firewire card and my am finaly able to watch my cablebox through my > >PVR-150. So now I want to set the quality settings for the card. If I > >understand correctly I'm to go into 'Recording Profiles' choose 'MPEG-2 > >Encoders (PVR-x50, PVR-500)' and change the settings for the different > >profiles. > > > >So I see from the card specs that it can do 720x480 max in NTSC, so I set > >that. > >From my readings of the list Stream Type should be MPEG2-TS?
I'm using DVD-Special 2 > > > >What about bitrate? I've got plenty of harddrive > > > I didn't think that was possible. ;) > > > so I'd like to set the > >highest bitrate values that will get properly used. > > > >Any other help for getting the best recording quality would be appreciated! > > > > > You almost definitely won't see any benefit above 6000kbps (you'll hit > the limit of the electronics before the limit of the bitrate), but > probably won't see much (if any) benefit above 4500kbps. Make sure you > leave good headroom in the max, also (at least 1/3 more than average > bitrate, i.e. 6000/8000 or 4500/6000). I've been using 2200 as average > and the quality was good (not great) on my 27" NTSC TV, but it's > definitely not that^H^H^H^Hat all good on my 67" 1080p TV... ;) Oh that's just great! You made me drool on my keyboard! Grrrrrr... :o) > > 4500kbps will probably give you about 2-2.25GiB/hr, and 6000kpbs will > probably give you about 2.6-3Gib/hr including audio I'm using 4500/6000 and am very happy with the quality. But I'm using the 350's TV-out to my 29" SDTV... -- Brian. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
