Resolution and bitrate

[solo]

Hey guys, Need some noob help here.

First off, I love this program, it is exactly what I was looking for. Ok now to my question/problem.

I am trying to record shows to add to my video on-demand system. Everything works great, but I had a question about it. I would like to have all the movies I record under 1gb with the highest possible quality. Now I have 2 ways for doing this as far as I can tell.  I could lower the record settings or record in high quality and encode using divx.

Now if I lower the record settings then the quality will not be as good and if I use divx on them then I have to go thru and encode every movie.

So my question is this:
What would be the best way to get 1gb movies with the best possible quality?
What is better, increasing the resolution or the bitrate for quality?


Now onto my problem. I am currently using a PVR350 and I am using the TV-Out on it. The picture looks great, almost as good as my normal live TV. The problem is that in order for me to get sound I have to use the audio out on the PVR350, but when I play music it doesn't play thru the audio out on the PVR350, instead it plays thru my normal audio out on the sound card.

Is there any way to get it to play all sound thru the PVR350 audio out?

Thanks in advance,
Solo

[jquinlan]

Quote[/b] ]Is there any way to get it to play all sound thru the PVR350 audio out?

At this time you need to use a loopback cable from your 350 to your sound card input and then from the sound card output to your TV will work, but you will also get all PC sounds.
Now, the MVP will play the audio properly through it audio ports to the TV if you decide to add to your system.