[mythtv-users] Suggested Encoding Rates

[Donavan Stanley]

On 4/28/05, Alexander Varakin <avarakin at optonline.net> wrote:
> 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 you're reencoding already encoded files it's too late.