[mythtv-users] Suggested Encoding Rates

[Alexander Varakin]

Quality of PVR-?50 hardware encoder is very poor and it requires very high bit 
rates for decent quality (about 6Mb/s). 
Software MPEG2 encoders are much better, in Windows world CCE and TmpGenc are 
very good(they can also run on Linux with wine). On linux mpeg2enc is also 
very good.  
I always reencode using software encoder.  
If I need DVD compatibility, I use mpeg2enc and result is about 600M for 45 
min show, resolution 720x480.  
If I don't care about DVD compatibility then I encode into xvid : about 300M 
for 45 min, resolution 640x480.
 

On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:16, Neil Bird wrote:
> 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?