Quote Originally Posted by afatsuoM View Post
Haha, you tell me now? I've been waiting hours for these video's to upload. Here's part 1. It's still processing, so the current quality is ****. It'll get better soon.

I'm using the Mac software (HDPVRCapture), which is really limited. I ordered Elgato EyeTV 3, but that's not in yet.

Do you really mean 1000kbps by the way? My settings were more like 10mbps. I set it to 12500, but it came out 9500.
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Hey afatsuoM - I have mine set to 12,500kbps as well I think (whatever the highest setting is), but the videos only seem to come out at 10,000kbps (not 1,000kbps - oops) when I analyse them. Maybe yours are slightly lower because it's something to do with the Mac software?

It's kind of annoying, because the Arcsoft transcoder that comes with the PVR is actually a lot better than the free one I have. But the options are either 6,000kbps or 8,000kbps. If the files were actually at 12,500kbps then 6,000kbps would be perfect at half the frame rate. I've experimented a lot but I can't seem to get videos that playback smoothly on my PC unless I use the Arcsoft. So I just use that anyway to convert to 6,000kbps, even though that seems to mean there's 1,000kbps that's added in by magic somehow. I really don't understand that part.

Also, the PVR seems to record using the h.264 codec, whereas, after converting with the Arcsoft transcoder, the output video is using the AVC1 codec. I really thought they were the same thing, so I have no idea why the Arcsoft software bundled with the PVR seems to change it to AVC1. Maybe it's just a label or something?

Anyway, if you find settings in the future that you're happy with once uploaded to youtube then let me know and I'll try them out. Feel free to natter away about the PVR in general - maybe we can learn from each other. Overall I like it because it's a really simple way to do things - even with the bitrate confusion.