Others have done a good job of talking about higher end, so let me talk about the lower end.
I have Dish network coming in through an anlog line, into my tuner, and out to a 20" regular TV. So my source resolution is lowish, but my line is very clean, and my output device isn't very picky. :) My defualt setting is 480x480, 2000Kbps (the only thing I changed in the MPEG2 profile was bitrate, nothing else). This gets me just under 1 gig per hour, and if I sit 6 feet away, there's really no perceptible degradation. My "high quality" is 544x480, 3500Mbps (1.8 gig/hr). "Live TV" is 640x480, 4500Kbps. I've also got a Matrox Marvel G400. I have to capture at 352x480, because 720x480 will bog down my system. Quality is still just fine, comparable to the PVR-250, although the file size can be about 10 gig/hr (I transcode these to about 1800Kbps). If I had a bigger, fancier TV, I might be more picky. Earlier, before I sorted out my coaxial cable problems, I had some noise on the line, and it did really bad things to the picture quality. --- Tony McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm buying some of the parts I will need for the MythTV box in the > next few > days. Our rig will use a primary hard disk for actually running the > OS on > and a secondary hard disk that will be exclusively for storing data > on. Since the main purpose of our machine is for recording / > encoding > video for playback *only* on our TV, what are some good encoding > settings? > > I am pretty sure that I will encode at 640x480 but don't know about > any > other settings or how they will affect file size. For a normal > 1-hour show > (most of our favorites are this long), what kind of file sizes am I > looking > at? This will affect the size of the hard disk I buy for the > storage. > > I'm not expecting folks to just hand out information here, but a good > site > for tutorials on this topic where I can research it myself would be > greatly > appreciated since I know little about how MythTV encodes and the > official > How-To was a bit slim on this topic. > > thanks! > .tony > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
