rtmoore4
03-04-2003, 07:26 PM
I have been playing with the demo SageRecorder software for a couple of days now, and I really like it. I haven't tried the SageTV demo yet, although that will be next.
I have a couple of little niggles, though, that I would like to point out and see if anyone has any answers/thoughts. I'm going to try and group these into separate threads for forum purposes.
To start with, bitrates... There are a bunch of default settings for capture quality, but I don't see anything that references what bitrates these correspond to or whether or not they are CBR or VBR. They appear to roughly correspond to the default setting in the WinTV2000 application, and I have seen a list of what those settings are. Are these the same?
I see that you can create custom quality settings by editing a text file, but I'm confused about how these options are specified. For example, you can choose a video bitrate and whether or not you want to use VBR, but I don't see any way to specify what the min and max bitrate should be.
Can you provide some suggestions about what bitrate is best for capturing to go straight to DVD with ~2 hours of video? I have tried using the DVD Long Play option, and that seemed to work okay, but confirmation of that, or different suggestions would be welcome.
I have also set the audio bitrate to 224 kHz as I have read that is the max supported by the DVD spec. However, my DVD authoring program (DVD Moviefactory) says that the capture was recorded with 384 kHz audio, once I load it up. Once I set the burn in motion, the program then proceeds to transcode the audio before writing the disc. Is there anyway to force the audio capture to 224kHz, and not have my authoring program have to transcode the audio? (I am trying to lessen the amount of time necessary to go from a capture to a burned disc.)
Randle
I have a couple of little niggles, though, that I would like to point out and see if anyone has any answers/thoughts. I'm going to try and group these into separate threads for forum purposes.
To start with, bitrates... There are a bunch of default settings for capture quality, but I don't see anything that references what bitrates these correspond to or whether or not they are CBR or VBR. They appear to roughly correspond to the default setting in the WinTV2000 application, and I have seen a list of what those settings are. Are these the same?
I see that you can create custom quality settings by editing a text file, but I'm confused about how these options are specified. For example, you can choose a video bitrate and whether or not you want to use VBR, but I don't see any way to specify what the min and max bitrate should be.
Can you provide some suggestions about what bitrate is best for capturing to go straight to DVD with ~2 hours of video? I have tried using the DVD Long Play option, and that seemed to work okay, but confirmation of that, or different suggestions would be welcome.
I have also set the audio bitrate to 224 kHz as I have read that is the max supported by the DVD spec. However, my DVD authoring program (DVD Moviefactory) says that the capture was recorded with 384 kHz audio, once I load it up. Once I set the burn in motion, the program then proceeds to transcode the audio before writing the disc. Is there anyway to force the audio capture to 224kHz, and not have my authoring program have to transcode the audio? (I am trying to lessen the amount of time necessary to go from a capture to a burned disc.)
Randle