[mythtv-users] PVR250 Settings?
Scott Pouliot
spouliot at scpsoftware.net
Thu Feb 12 20:37:13 EST 2004
I'm running a PVR-250 Freestyle (OEM card from a Media Center PC). I got it
off eBay for $88 and it's been great since day 1.
My Settings are as follows:
Video
Size: 480X480 ( I haven't played around with this yet)
Codec: MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder
Stream Type: MPEG-2 PS
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Bit rate: 2400 (I mistakenly said 2200 sorry!)
Max. Bitrate: 6000 (Honestly not sure where this comes into play so forgive
me)
Audio
Codec: MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder
Sampling Rate: 32000
Type: Layer II
Bitrate: 48kbps
The max bitrate setting may actually be bumping me up, but I don't know
enough about that setting (I'm a fairly new MythTV user) to be sure here.
Maybe I should be running higher settings here?
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:31 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 Settings?
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:57, Scott Pouliot wrote:
> I run 480X480 @ 2200 and mine looks pretty good, but I'm no using
> TV-Out at this point. Still on a 19" CRT.
I'm guessing there's some confusion here... this thread is specifically
about PVR-250/350 encoder settings (hardware MPEG-2 encoding). Scott, do
you have a PVR-250, or a regular analog tuner card? 480x480 at 2200 is a good
resolution + bitrate for MPEG-4 software encoding. If you say your
recordings look pretty good, I'm guessing maybe you have a regular V4L tuner
card & are using MPEG-4 encoding? If so, that would explain why everyone is
saying that 2200 is a crazy bitrate... to achieve the same quality in
MPEG-2, you need a bitrate 2-3 times higher.
Apologies if I'm incorrect...
-JAC
>
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Dodd
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:24 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR250 Settings?
>
> Quoting Scott Pouliot <spouliot at scpsoftware.net>:
> > Same here I use 2200 for my card as well. I heard this is MPEG-2
> > quality. I usually view the vids on my Windows XP box when I'm
> > upstairs and bored with work ;-)
>
> I'm guessing you're not running at full resolution then...
>
> Even on my cleanest channels, 2200 looks ugly as hell (compression
> artifacts) at 720x480.
>
> I (believe it or not) run 7900 peak/6500 average. Partly because many
> of my channels are noisy...
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