[mythtv-users] Suggested Encoding Rates

Neil Bird neil at fnxweb.com
Thu Apr 28 15:16:19 UTC 2005


Around about 28/04/05 15:54, Jason McLeod typed ...
> How low of a resolution is too low?
> How low of a bitrate for the video is too low?

   Well there's synchronicity in action!

   I was just about to post this and a related question.  I'm running my 
PVR-350 with fairly high (normally) res. PAL settings, and a bitrate of 
~6200 somethings.  I get images of ~2.0-2.2 Gb per hour.

   Now, I just downloaded [bittorrent] an episode of something I missed. 
  The AVI's ~364 Mb for the, I guess, ~43 mins., but is, whem played 
through MythVideo, of comparable quality to the stuff I record at 6x the 
size!

   Is it possible to tune the PVR to get, if not that small, then 
smaller but decent recordings?  More usefully for me, can anyone 
recommend a codec/encoder that'd generate small & decent files (maybe 
even SVCD format) for Myth archiving?

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