A little bit of sugestion for my first recordings.

[Messerschmitt]

Hey there, I just got a TV Tunner, and I see all these options here and I kinda don't have any idea what to chose.

I don't know exactly what would the bit rate for the MPEG and DVD (PAL/NTSC) format would do.

If I would record with MPEG format, which should I chose for the highest quality, MPEG 1 2 or 4?

Also for 1 minute it ususaly takes 30 MB's for these 2 (MPEG and DVD).

If I chose .avi, it goes over 1.5 GB. Yet all the movies I see over the internet are .avi format, and a 22 minute episode for example would take around 250bm's. What kind of econder should I use for my .avi to reduce the size to that? Even if I record in MPEG or DVD, a 20 minute recording is taking around 600mb, and not the 250 mb's I usualy saw for the episode i recorded.

I am very newbish in this area as I just started.

Thank you

[ripken204]

mpeg 4 for highest mpeg quality. but the higher the quality the bigger the filesize. i would maybe chose avi with a divx compression if that is available.

[Messerschmitt]

I only have a codec available for MPEG 4. Microsoft V1 V2 V3 and Divx.

And I did some tests, and it comes out that MPEG 2 would be the best quality.

For AVI there is no other options and as I said, for 1 minute it takes 1.5 GB...

Also, is the DivX the best encoder when it comes to quality and size?

Another problem would be that if I record in MPEG 2 and I play it with Media Player Classic, I cannot change the timeline. If I do, the image will freeze and sometimes only the sound is starting where the timeline is.

Edited July 27, 2006 by Messerschmitt