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

[Scott Blomfield]

I was not attempting to be "specific"... only trying to interpret where
perhaps our viewpoints were differing. There was not intended to be
criticism in my previous post.

However; thanks for confusing the issue some more, that's exactly what
everyone needed. In my honest opinion, Mbit for megabit vs megabyte is
orders of magnitude confusing than any convolution of mb, Mb, mB or MB.
Your own mileage, of course, may vary.

For the pedantically inclined:

I believe that we read megabit, and Will read megabyte. 3 megabytes /
second works out to about 10Gigabytes / hour .... and you can certainly
turn it down a lot from there!

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

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Mason [mailto:damason at redshift.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:07 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 with 3Mbps bitrate

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