[mythtv-users] PVR-250 with 3Mbps bitrate

[David A. Mason]

Well, if you're going to be specific like that, note that, in saying "mbit"
you're talking about millibits - one thousandth of a bit.

That's a pretty low bit-rate. I guess the PVR-250 does some tight
compression.

DAM

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Scott Blomfield
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:56 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 with 3Mbps bitrate


I believe that we read mbit, and Will read mbyte. 3mbyte/s works out to
about 10Gbyte/hour .... and you can certainly turn it down a lot from there!

>From what I've heard, you wouldn't want to go below 4mbit with a 
>PVR-250
MPEG2.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pinkham [mailto:cpinkham at bc2va.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:33 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 with 3Mbps bitrate

> At 09:07 PM 8/5/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >Anybody with a PVR 2/350, how is the videoquality at this bitrate ?
I'm 
> >looking to be able to use it over a 802.11b network.
> 
> The quality is excellent.   Mine's set up for 2.5-3GB/hour.
> You could probably get away with much less, too, if you're viewing on
a TV.

Hope I did my calculations right, but isn't 3Mbit/sec about 1.3Gbyte/hour?
So you're recording at twice the bitrate he asked about.

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Chris