On 08/09/05, Mike Daugird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have MythTV now recording and I can watch TV! > I may have broken some more advanced features in my attempts to get the > basics working. > > > I have a PVR-350 > I want to record the TV shows in DVD format so that I can just burn them to > disk using K3B > Can someone talk down to me on how to setup the default quality, resolution > and basically get > everything straight? > right now I am getting 640X480 I think and it takes about 2 gigs for a 30 > minute show. > I also want to know, on a P3 933mhz machine how long does commercial removal > take? how do I know when > it is done?
If you want DVD-format recordings, why do you record in a non-standard DVD-resolution. Standard DVD-resolution are e.g. 720x480 for NTSC and 720x576 for PAL. 2G for 30 minutes seems a bit overkill. I get about 2G per hour and that's nice quality. I doubt your cable company sends out an analog signal that's the equivalent of 8Mbit/s digital so I'd lower that. Do some testing with different bitrate settings. As for commercial detection. Either someone would need to setup a small database where for each type of CPU the time to commercial-flag a 30 minute recording takes or you'll have to hope someone is using the same CPU as you are. Again, do a test yourself. > I would rather have a higher quality recording and buy another hard drive, > but I don't want to have > a bit rate that is way to high. My concern is really getting High quality > recordings to put on DVD > I am going to get my wedding, my daughters birth, and a few other VHS tapes > into this box and > I want them to be able to play on anybody's set top DVD player(mom, and > mother-in-law) > > thanks VHS-recordings have an even lower resolution than TV so you can up the bitrate all you want, it won't make it look any better. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users