[mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-20 Thread f-myth-users
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:49:00 -0800 > From: Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've found the info at this site helpful > http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html Gosh, that's a pretty diagram. :) I eventually settled on 3200kbits/sec as being just about as

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/18/2006 12:14 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:27:59 -0400 >> From: Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > But I also saw a neglible change in file sizes, too. Is this >> > the expected behavior? > >> Certainly, bitrate is bitrate regardless

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/17/06 20:27, Greg Estabrooks wrote: >>But I also saw a neglible change in file sizes, too. Is this >>the expected behavior? >> >> > > Certainly, bitrate is bitrate regardless of the resolution. 2Megabits at >480x480 is just as much data as 2Megabits at 720x480. > Or, put another way,

[mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-18 Thread f-myth-users
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:27:59 -0400 > From: Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But I also saw a neglible change in file sizes, too. Is this > > the expected behavior? > Certainly, bitrate is bitrate regardless of the resolution. 2Megabits at > 480x480 is just

[mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-17 Thread f-myth-users
I noticed recently that my 18.1 Myth had a mix of 480x480 and 720x480 resolutions for the Default/LiveTV/High/Low capture resolutions. I'm using 250's & 350's (no HD) from an NTSC cable feed, and I tried changing all four of Default/LiveTV/High/Low to 480x480, doing a 1-minute recording, and then

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-17 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> But I also saw a neglible change in file sizes, too. Is this > the expected behavior? Certainly, bitrate is bitrate regardless of the resolution. 2Megabits at 480x480 is just as much data as 2Megabits at 720x480. The difference is how much data per sampled pixel. Often lowering the resolutio