DVRs: Audio Settings, WinTV2000 and Pvr250 - Page 2

Boulder · #21 12-18-2003, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by rhino

Boulder,

got to www.shspvr.com and ask those guys, especially SHS. There are a number of graph tutorials/docs now so there may be someway of doing this. I'm also beta testing a new PVR app for PVR250/350 for some some guy in NZ so i'll check with him to see if he knows of anyway of doing this,

Cheers,

Hi Rhino,

theoretically it should be possible as you said and GraphEdit really could be the way. I'll see if there's any help in those tutorials.

Thanks!

nicksteel · #22 12-23-2003, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Boulder

Yes, I would say that even the 384kbps, 48KHz MP2 audio doesn't sound good enough for a bitrate that high. I can't do any direct compares, but I'd estimate that it's about as good as 160-192kbps with tooLAME. I wish there were a way to get WAV - or a better MP2 encoder.

I've done some 128kbps VBR MP3->128kbps MP2 encodes and they actually sound better than those captured audio clips re-encoded at 128kbps!

Thanks, Boulder.

I've started using 160kbps instead of 128kbps from Headac3he. The sound is much improved, though with corresponding loss of video space. No real choice though, so I'll use 160kbps until some other option becomes available. Really love the PVR-250's video at 704x480 and 480x480 MPEG2!

jamesp · #23 12-23-2003, 05:20 PM

heh nicksteel. I got me one of these PVr babies - although i went for the PVR-350. Isn't the software which comes with it dog turd! Currently i'm using wintvcap which works really nicely, but it seems a bit of a waste of money to run this board through a little shareware program. The sound capture is awsome on this - so much better than my soundcard. Also, no more ausio.Video sync problems! I think the video is a little too soft - but very clean. I think you can adjust the Sharpness and the board does its own temporal/spatial smoothing so i may try to turn those off.

The tv out on the PVR-350 is superb quality, but only works with MPeg-2 files - not DVD or avi. Luckilly for me, thats all i want it for. The Tv out quality is on a par with a proper DVD player. No more interlacing problems like i used to get with my GeForce MMX cards tv out.

Has anyone tried Sage yet - i couldn't get Snapstream to work.

Jim

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Originally Posted by nicksteel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boulder

Yes, I would say that even the 384kbps, 48KHz MP2 audio doesn't sound good enough for a bitrate that high. I can't do any direct compares, but I'd estimate that it's about as good as 160-192kbps with tooLAME. I wish there were a way to get WAV - or a better MP2 encoder.

I've done some 128kbps VBR MP3->128kbps MP2 encodes and they actually sound better than those captured audio clips re-encoded at 128kbps!

Thanks, Boulder.

I've started using 160kbps instead of 128kbps from Headac3he. The sound is much improved, though with corresponding loss of video space. No real choice though, so I'll use 160kbps until some other option becomes available. Really love the PVR-250's video at 704x480 and 480x480 MPEG2!

nicksteel · #24 12-23-2003, 05:29 PM

Glad you like it, jamesp!

Thought you would.