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View Poll Results: Which Recording Quality Setting Do You Use?
DVD 42 79.25%
MPEG-2 8 15.09%
MPEG-2 PS 5 9.43%
MPEG-4 0 0%
VCD 0 0%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 53. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-23-2005, 01:01 AM
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Question Which Recording Quality Setting Do You Use?
I am curious about which Recording Formats folks are using ...

DVD, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-4 or VCD?

Also, maybe post which Recording Qualities below you use as well??

DVD
  • DVD Standard Play (Format: DVD @ 3.2 GB/hr)
  • Best (Format: DVD @ 3.0 GB/hr)
  • DVD Long Play (Format: DVD @ 2.4 GB/hr)
  • Great (Format: DVD @ 2.0 GB/hr)
  • DVD Extra Long Play (Format: DVD @ 1.6 GB/hr)
  • Good (Format: DVD @ 1.4 GB/hr)
  • Fair (Format: DVD @ 0.9 GB/hr)

MPEG-2
  • SVCD Standard Play (Format: MPEG-2 @ 1.1 GB/hr)
  • SVCD Long Play (Format: MPEG-2 @ 0.9 GB/hr)
  • SVCD Extra Long Play (Format: MPEG-2 @ 0.7 GB/hr)

MPEG-2 PS
  • MPEG2 Max Quality (Format: MPEG-2 PS @ 5.9 GB/hr)
  • CVD (Format: MPEG-2 PS @ 1.3 GB/hr)

MPEG-4
  • MPEG-4 High Quality (Format: MPEG-4 @ 2.0 GB/hr)
  • MPEG-4 Good Quality (Format: MPEG-4 @ 1.5 GB/hr)
  • MPEG-4 Standard Play (Format: MPEG-4 @ 1.1 GB/hr)
  • MPEG-4 Long Play (Format: MPEG-4 @ 0.8 GB/hr)
  • MPEG-4 Extended Play (Format: MPEG-4 @ 0.4 GB/hr)

VCD
  • VCD (Format: VCD @ 0.6 GB/hr)
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Old 12-23-2005, 02:26 AM
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I currently use Best (Format: DVD @ 3.0 GB/hr) as my Default.
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Old 12-23-2005, 05:39 AM
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Live TV
Does this setting effect LIVE TV viewing?
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Old 12-23-2005, 05:51 AM
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Does this setting effect LIVE TV viewing?
Everything you watch in Sage is recorded. So yes it affects "liveTV".
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Old 12-23-2005, 05:52 AM
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I use DVD Standard Play (Format: DVD @ 3.2 GB/hr), anything below that and I can see a drop off in quality.
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Old 12-23-2005, 07:56 AM
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DVD Standard Play (Format: DVD @ 3.2 GB/hr)
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Old 12-23-2005, 07:58 AM
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I primarily use DVD Standard Play (3.2G/hr).
I'll use DVD Long/Extra Long on shows that I don't care about the quality so much (John Stewart Show,Colbert Report).
I use the MPEG Max Quality (5.9G/hr) on all my VCR recordings to try to retrieve all the data I can from the VCR source.
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Old 12-23-2005, 08:18 AM
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I use DVD Extra Long Play as the default - for most content I can't see a difference between Sage recordings and regular cable (using a 50-inch HDTV-ready TV).

For content with a lot of movement like sports I need to use a minimum of DVD Long Play to get good results, otherwise things seem blurry. This is particularly noticeable in football during kickoffs, when the camera is panning across the field to track the ball and you see the crowd moving in the background and the players running down the field.

Unfortunately playback is an issue with DVD Long Play or better using my ancient Pentium III - 550MHz. Playback will stutter every few minutes (or more often) especially if Sage is recording something at the same time.
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Old 12-23-2005, 08:29 AM
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newbie alert!!! how and where do I enable "MPEG2 Max Quality (Format: MPEG-2 PS @ 5.9 GB/hr)" ????

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Old 12-23-2005, 08:31 AM
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I pretty much always use DVD Extra Long Play (Format: DVD @ 1.6 GB/hr).
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Old 12-23-2005, 09:10 AM
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newbie alert!!! how and where do I enable "MPEG2 Max Quality (Format: MPEG-2 PS @ 5.9 GB/hr)" ????

When setting up a recording or adjusting your settings of your "Favorites", you'll see a recording quality selector. If I remember correctly, it maybe the very last choice of the selector. I'm using SageTV 4.x and didn't have to enable anything to get that quality setting. Though, I can't remember if it was part of the earlier versions (SageTV 2.x).
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Old 12-23-2005, 09:46 AM
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First tuner is set to DVD Standard Play (Format: DVD @ 3.2 GB/hr), the second tuner is set to Great (Format: DVD @ 2.0 GB/hr), depending on what I want recorded.
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I think you're a bit confused

Quote:
Originally Posted by mightyt
I am curious about which Recording Quality Settings folks are using ...

DVD, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-4 or VCD?

Also, maybe post which Format below you use as well??
The poll would seem to be which format do you use (DVD, MPEG, MPEG-PS, DivX are formats not qualities )

Best here
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Old 12-23-2005, 09:59 AM
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For those folks who want to add some different VBR settings to the standard settings that SageTV has, check out the FAQ/Post...

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...0&postcount=16

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I use Max Mpeg-2 (12mbit/s) settings.
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Old 12-23-2005, 10:35 AM
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DVD Standard Play (Format: DVD @ 3.2 GB/hr) for me.
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Old 12-23-2005, 12:51 PM
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DVD Standard, Extra Long Play for aninated stuff.
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Old 12-23-2005, 03:18 PM
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DVD Standard Play (Format: DVD @ 3.2 GB/hr) is what I use.

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Quote:
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I think you're a bit confused



The poll would seem to be which format do you use (DVD, MPEG, MPEG-PS, DivX are formats not qualities )

Best here
OK ... you got a point ...

I really started out wanting to know "qualities", but polling only allows up to 10 choices ...

So I went for polling the format and asked people to post qualities and didn't update my text ... It looks like everyone got the gest of it anyway ...

I did update the text in post one though ... Thanks!

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Old 12-23-2005, 03:58 PM
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newbie alert!!! how and where do I enable "MPEG2 Max Quality (Format: MPEG-2 PS @ 5.9 GB/hr)" ????
You can also set the Default Quality and Per Tuner Card in SageTV v.4.0 by going in to ...

Detailed Seup > Multimedia > Recording Quality > Set Quality

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