> From: Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 11/04/2005, at 8:50 AM, Rod wrote: >> Just wondering if anyone has had any experience in putting EyeTV >> recordings into DVD Studio Pro? I have a EyeTV 400, so it records >> Digital TV. > Well, I have discovered the problem. The bit rate of the recordings is > at 15000 Kbps, which is way above the 9800 Kbps limit of DVDSP. From > what I can gather, the latets EyeTV boxes allow you to adjust the bit > rate at which the recordings are saved. Unfortunately for me, the 400 > I have does not.
Rod, you should blame Channel 10 etc for broadcasting their digital TV programs at too high a bit rate - not Elgato's EyeTV. I also have an EyeTV 400 and the reason you can't change bit-rates in EyeTV is because it is not EyeTV that controls the bit rate of recordings but the digital TV broadcaster (channel 2, 7, 9, 10 or SBS). The EyeTV 400 (and the EyeTV 310, 410, 610 and the EasyWatch MobilSet) effectively just download the MPEG-2 streams directly from the broadcast source without any re-compression. This is why the output from the EyeTV 400 is so good - there are no generational losses incurred in the capture. Easily DVD quality. In contrast, the EyeTV 200 and the EyeTV USB (original and v2.0) capture an analog TV signal which they then compress on-the-fly with whatever compression format and bit-rate the user decides. Much lower quality solution than digital TV. In my case, I prefer not to go to the trouble of pulling the video footage into DVDSP and burning DVD video discs - instead I re-compress the footage using DivX (or 3ivX - soon to be MPEG-4 H264 AVC once Quicktime 7 is released) and can then fit a dozen 1 hr TV shows on a single DVD-R at close to the same apparent quality levels. Much cheaper on DVD discs. In fact, the files are that much smaller that I have been leaving most of the compressed movies, TV shows etc on our external 250GB HD as an instantly accessible movies folder. Since we watch TV on our iMac G5's screen or on our data projector, there is no need to go to DVD video discs. However, I might just burn a DVD video disc in DVDSP as an experiment tonight and will let you know if I have any success. -Mart
