[mythtv-users] TV Recordings Quality - How to manage?

["José Tomás @ Chico"]

Thanks!
Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 17/10/2008, "José Tomás @ Chico" <jose.tomas at chico.mine.nu> wrote:
>   
>>  Hi!
>>
>>  Yesterday I did play with some settings for recording TV. Setting Rules and
>> programs.
>>  This morning I did inspect and I noticed that some records had 3,3GB
>> against others of similar duration (1h30m) with 500MB.
>>
>>  How does we control the quality or the space occupied for the recordings?
>>     
>
> You alter the recording profiles for your capture card, and choose the
> most appropriate one to use for your recordings. The LiveTV profile
> will be used for watching LiveTV, and there are 3 more (Default, Low
> Quality and High Quality) which you can select for each of your
> recording rules. You can alter the bitrate settings via mythfrontend:
>
> Setup -> TV Settings -> Recording Profiles
>
>   
>>  Just to be noticed, my TV signal is standard, not digital, so quality is
>> far from good comparing to digital, so the final result for the records with
>> 3,3GB is not different for those with 500MB.
>>     
>
> It depends to some extent on what type/quality of capture card you are
> using, and also how clean (free from noise) your TV signal is for each
> of your analog channels.
>
>   


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