Neil Bird wrote: > 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!
Those AVIs you downloaded probably aren't using MPEG-2, but instead use some variant or another of MPEG-4. That's why they can deliver the same quality in less space. Comparing MPEG-4 to MPEG-2 is like comparing Ogg Vorbis to MP3. You could transcode from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 (MythTV will even do this for you), but the transcoded recordings won't be playable through your PVR-350. (That assumes you're using its MPEG-2 decoder; I stopped using mine when I upgraded to an LCD TV and switched from S-video to DVI.) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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