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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to improve video quality when I archive
to DVD. My recordings are grainy with motion-related artifacts that
appear. I'm using the removecommercials scripts that is on the
net. I could use a little advice here on how to get TV quality
recordings on disk.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I do not understand is the the script (run as
a user job) takes a 2.2Gig recording and puts it down to 750K. Is this
where the initial quality loss is? I understand that the script flags the
commercials then transcodes the result to a smaller file. Marginally
smaller I can understand due to the loss of commercials, but what is actually
reducing the file size by 65%? Different format?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, is the quality degrading even further because
I'm trying to burn 6 hours of programming on a DVD? If I want near-TV
quality, how much recording capacity can I expect on a 4.7Gig
DVD? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a PVR-350 and I record using a recording
profile with:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Image size: 720x480</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Video Codec: MPEG-2</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stream type: MPEG-2 PS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aspect: 4:3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bitrate: 4500</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Max Bitrate: 6000</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Audio Codec: MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sampling: 32000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Type: Layer II</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bitrate: 384kbps</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All of my recordings will go to DVD
exclusively. If I use the removecommericials script as a user job, is
setting a job transcoder redundant? Similarly, is
setting 'auto-transcode' and 'commercial removal' flags
redundant?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I set all of my transcoder profiles
identical:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Video Codec: MPEG-4</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bitrate: 2200</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Enable High Quality encoding: off</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Enable 4MV: off</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Enable interlaced DCT: off</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Enable interlaced motion estimation:
off</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance for any help!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Corey.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>