PVR150 Bitrates

[Keithinbristol]

I'm using a couple of PVR150 cards and have the timpstamp issue that I'm sorting out but I have a more general question on the built in encoder.

According to Hauppauge the card supports a number of formats, for example the DVD rate is 6400 with a peak of 8000 and the Long Play DVD is 4800 with a peak of 6200, audio is at 384 on 48KHz for both. Does this mean I have to set the bitrates in PVR config to match one of these examples? The default High Quality in GBPVR is 5500/9000 224 at 48KHz but this doesn't match any of the predefined Hauppauge ones.

[nitrogen_widget]

If you are going to burn recordings to DVD it makes sense to adjust your recording bitrate in order to avoid lengthy conversions to make your recordings fit on a standard DVD.

There is a bit rate calculator floating around that can help you estimate a recordings size.

[Keithinbristol]

Thanks for your input, but what I was trying to say was can I set any bitrate or is the PVR150 limited to a specific set of values? I have to say it's a lot better once the timestamp issue has been sorted (well hopefully sorted).

[donschjr]

Set it at what you want, I do and it works fine.