On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:33:47AM -0500, Trevor Boicey wrote: > > Personally I can get an hour per gig using "watchable" quality > settings of 352x240 Why did you choose 352x240? My TV-Out video card requires I set it to 640x480 for TV-Out so I record in 320x240 so that scaling by 2 in the x and y directions gives a nice 640x480. > at 2.3Mb/s. Using what? > 2.3Mbit makes for a very watchable picture. I have been using 1.8Mbit with NVrec's DIVXrec. > I got an ATI Rage 8MB PCI card with Tv-out for $35cdn. ($23us?) and > it has more than enough horsepower to show the image. A big 3D > processor and 32M of vram would likely be wasted on a PVR. Right! I have an ATI Rage IIC: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 3a) but I don't think it even has an Xvideo XFree driver never mind TV-Out. :-( > I found the coax in video quality to be unacceptable. It is fairly bad. But when all you got is analog cable what can you do? > The > noise in the image is especially bad because it then gets compressed > and makes more artifacts as the encoder tries diligently to > reproduce all those freckles. :< Tell me about it. > As for coax out, few cards will support this. (None that > I know) You might have to use the composite out and the video > in of your VCR if you are short of jacks. As long as you are not using braindead hardware like the Matrox G400 which turns Macrovision on on the TV-Out port. In that sort of case you need the RF modulator I described in my other message on this thread. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
