Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-20 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 11/17/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for absolute quality yes, but for basic archival purpose (you know, untilHD-DVD's finally come out), transcoding to mpeg4 is quite good, you canget a 1hr show onto a CDR if you do it right and get maybe a 5% discernable quality loss. Maybe for

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 20 November 2005 13:45, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 11/17/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for absolute quality yes, but for basic archival purpose (you know, until HD-DVD's finally come out), transcoding to mpeg4 is quite good, you can get a 1hr show onto a CDR if you

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steve Adeff wrote: you must be doing something wrong if you can't get an SD 1hr show into 700mb with such a loss in quality. A clean SD source is easy to fit 1hr onto 700mb with no discernable quality loss using XviD. I don't know what the space savings are though, I haven't played around

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 20 November 2005 14:50, Michael T. Dean wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: you must be doing something wrong if you can't get an SD 1hr show into 700mb with such a loss in quality. A clean SD source is easy to fit 1hr onto 700mb with no discernable quality loss using XviD. I don't know what

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-20 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 11/20/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you must be doing something wrong if you can't get an SD 1hr show into 700mbwith such a loss in quality. A clean SD source is easy to fit 1hr onto 700mbwith no discernable quality loss using XviD. I don't know what the space savings are though, I

[mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Trown
Ok, so I've been plugging away and things look mostly good. Still a few issues to deal with but easily done, so long as I can get the kids to stop bugging me. ;) The plethora of options has got me trying to figure out what to do. So, I have an HD3000 and a Rosewill 5200FX

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-17 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 11/17/05, Chris Trown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that some people transcode to MPEG4 format.The reasonsI've read are better picture and less disk usage.True? If you're transcoding you're transcoding to MPEG4. The reason for doing so is space that's it. If I transcode to MPEG4, then I

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and Myth. Please help me understand

2005-11-17 Thread Michael T. Dean
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 11/17/05, *Chris Trown* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that some people transcode to MPEG4 format. The reasons I've read are better picture and less disk usage. True? If you're transcoding you're transcoding to