Interesting this should come up, I was testing and playing around the other night.<br><br>I run my TV at 640x480, so I had my PVR-150 recording at 640x480. To me the picture looked blury (6000-10000 bitrate). So, I decided, what the hell, and put it to 720x480. To me the picture is crisper and less blurry.
<br><br>Is there any real explination for this, or am I just mental?<br><br>I am using XvMC on an NVidia card for output.<br><br>-Jake<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Simpson
</b> <<a href="mailto:jeffsimpson@alum.wpi.edu">jeffsimpson@alum.wpi.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Hmmm, conflicts with Jim's response...<br>> Can you post your file sizes for a 1 hour show? Mine are 2.2GB each<br>> at 480x480, all other defaults on my PVR-500.<br><br>I record everything at 720x480 on a PVR-350, and I'm at about
2.2 gigs<br>an hour as well.<br><br>I actually just lost my configuration and had to switch from the<br>default 480x480 back to the 720x480 I normally use.<br><br>Here's an episode of House that I recorded with the default settings
<br>(480x480). Filesize is 2332995584 (2.2G). Here are some stats gleaned<br>from mplayer:<br><br>VIDEO: MPEG2 480x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 6000.0 kbps (750.0 kbyte/s)<br>Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
<br>AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)<br>Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)<br>Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>VO: [xv] 480x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
<br><br>And to compare, here's another more recent hour-long show, but at<br>720x480. Filesize is 2332057600 (2.2G). Same mplayer stats:<br><br>VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 6000.0 kbps (750.0 kbyte/s)<br>
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3<br>AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)<br>Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)<br>Movie-Aspect is
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