Recording Parameters

Another of the prices we pay for the power and flexibility of the non-appliance solution is the necessity of doing some of the configuration ourselves.

The most important part of that configuration is probably choosing good parameters for recording and transcoding programs. What parameters work well depends on many things, personal taste not least among them.

In this section, users can post the parameters they're using and pleased with, so you have something to try out. If you'd like to add a line here, copy the header line to the bottom, and replace the text items.

You can use a put in your username (by typing ~~~) or your email address.

Note: For MPEG2 cards, AvgKBPS is MinKBPS.

Card	Profile	Width	Height	Aspect	AvgKBPS	MaxKBPS	Audio Samp	Layer	AudioBPS	MB/hr	Email/Wiki Name	Comments
MythTV Default	Default	480	480	4:3	4500	6000	32000	2	384	2200	Bay Link	S-VHS quality
?	LiveTV	704	480	4:3	3500	4000	32000	2	128	?	Bay Link	Perfectly watchable, and I'm picky
?	High	704	480	4:3	4500	8000	48000	2	192	?	Bay Link	We're not actually using this yet
?	Low	352	480	4:3	2200	3000	32000	2	128	2200	Bay Link	Same size??
?	Default	704	480	4:3	4000	6500	58000	2	224	2700	JDonavan	Does well with channels that have static
PVR-x50	Default	720	480	4:3	2200	9800	48000	2	256	1200	Michael Dean	Full D1 resolution; compliant with DVD spec without re-encoding.
PvR350	Default	480	480	4:3	2200	6000	32000	2	384	1200	grante@visi.com	I didn't notice any degradation when I switched from the 4500 AvgKBPS (2.2GB/hr) setting.
PVR-150	DVD Special 2	720	576	4:3	6400	8000	48000	2	384	3100	Bitrate Explained	Is DVD spec; no re-encoding required; MS MCE uses DVD Special 2