[mythtv-users] Bitrate/quality on PVR-150

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 22:05:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:20 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:06:02PM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>> > I have a pcHDTV 5500 tuner card. A previous post indicated that the bitrate
>> > could be changed in mythfrontend go to Setup > TV settings > Recording
>> > Profiles MPEG-2 Encoders. That page does not exist on my system. Can the
>> > bitrate be set for the card I am using? What am I overlooking?
>> >
>>
>> Digital tuners normally do not have a bitrate setting because they
>> just grab the .mpeg that the cable company sends.
>
> If you get crap off of an ATSC card then that's what the station is sending out.
>
> I see a WIDE variation in what comes of my HDHomeRun.
>
> Although all of it is superior to what comes off of my DirecTV D10.

Time to refer to this, which may have been posted here before:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4275063.html

Summary: there are no standards for HDTV bitrate, and profit making TV
companies will compress the hell out of everything to the max possible
in an effort to make more money.


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