[mythtv-users] colour "sharpness" question
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Thu Oct 19 13:25:43 UTC 2006
On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
> Higher bitrate means bigger files, which means fewer hours of TV
> fit on
> your system. With a hardware encoder (i.e. PVR-x50/PVR-500), there's
> (practically) no other effect on system resources.
>
> Note, though, that with the PVR-x50's/500's, having an average bitrate
> over 6000kbps is probably a waste. As a matter of fact, you're likely
> to hit the electronics' quality ceiling by 4500kbps or so (assuming a
> good quality input signal). Just make sure you have a reasonable
> maximum bitrate (about 133% the average bitrate). The default for
> PVR's
> is 4500kbps average and 6000kbps max.
You might find this informative:
http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html
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