[mythtv-users] PVR-250 quality?

Matthew Schumacher schu at schu.net
Mon Apr 28 20:28:08 UTC 2003


Does the ivtv driver use static rate encoding or variable rate encoding? 
  This would make a huge difference in how much space the mpeg takes up.

schu

Robert Kulagowski wrote:
 >
> 
>>How much larger?  I was under the impression that although 
>>the card can use
>>all sorts of bitrates, the driver was locked at a certain bitrate
>>(something like 16megabits/sec, which came out to about 7.2GB 
>>per hour),
>>which scared me away from using the card.
> 
> 
> It's actually closer to 8Mbps, despite what's being printed out. 
> Here's a 35 minute episode of "Friends"
> 
> 2,291,632,064 Apr 25 11:10 1005_20030424190000_20030424193500.nuv
> 
> 

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