[mythtv-users] PVR250 Settings?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:57, Scott Pouliot wrote:
> I run 480X480 @ 2200 and mine looks pretty good, but I'm no using
> TV-Out at this point.  Still on a 19" CRT.

I'm guessing there's some confusion here... this thread is specifically 
about PVR-250/350 encoder settings (hardware MPEG-2 encoding).  Scott, 
do you have a PVR-250, or a regular analog tuner card?  480x480 at 2200 is 
a good resolution + bitrate for MPEG-4 software encoding.  If you say 
your recordings look pretty good, I'm guessing maybe you have a regular 
V4L tuner card & are using MPEG-4 encoding?  If so, that would explain 
why everyone is saying that 2200 is a crazy bitrate... to achieve the 
same quality in MPEG-2, you need a bitrate 2-3 times higher.

Apologies if I'm incorrect...

-JAC
>
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Dodd
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:24 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR250 Settings?
>
> Quoting Scott Pouliot <spouliot at scpsoftware.net>:
> > Same here I use 2200 for my card as well.  I heard this is MPEG-2
> > quality. I usually view the vids on my Windows XP box when I'm
> > upstairs and bored with work  ;-)
>
> I'm guessing you're not running at full resolution then...
>
> Even on my cleanest channels, 2200 looks ugly as hell (compression
> artifacts) at 720x480.
>
> I (believe it or not) run 7900 peak/6500 average.  Partly because
> many of my channels are noisy...