Sunday, December 11, 2005

SageTV - bumping up the vid rate again

I'm still getting smaller then expected DVDs from my SageTV recordings. The raw MPEG2 file from the PVR is the correct size for a 3.5 hour recording, but after trimming commercials and cutting the shows, the DVDs are only ending up at 2.9-3.2GB for around 95min of footage. Which is around 30% less then I'd like (I'd like it to end up around 4.0GB, leaving me room for a few PAR2 blocks).

Right now, I have things set at 6800Kbps, so I think I'm going to bump up to 7500Kbps (VBR, with a max of 8Mbps, 384Kbps audio).

Previous:
SageTV Example (Jul 2005)
SageTV - Results at 6Mbps (Jul 2005)
SageTV - Video capture (Jul 2005)

Update: Bumping up to 7500Kbps VBR on the video capture settings is working well. I've had a few disks top out at 3.6GB and a few others bumped up against 4.1GB. Which is just about perfect. Now the only noise in my capture is from OTA interference.

I'm considering trying out an OTA HDTV tuner with S-Video output and piping that into my SageTV. That would give me clean signal, already sized down to DVD-compatible size. The downside would be making sure that the conversion box is turned on all the time.

Labels: 2005

posted by Wuphon's at 1:20 PM