WinTV PVR USB 2 Bitrate

[ydekmekji]

I have two cards--PVR 150 and PVR USB2. The PVR USB2, no matter what I record things at, it always seems to capture at bitrate 9000. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this kind of problem and/or know how to change the bitrate, cause i'm trying under GBPVR, and it's not working.

I also recorded using wintv2000 and when I checked the properties of the file, it was also at 9000. So somewhere, it's just stuck at 9000.

[ydekmekji]

OK, I updated the driver and it fixed it... PS, I tried to figure out how to delete this post, and couldn't figure out.

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The default forum permissions dont allow people to delete posts. Its also worth leaving these sorts of posts here for future reference - someone may come up with the same problem in the future.

[daphatty]

Actually I am finding this very useful. I hate that the recording quality of my PVR USB2 is not 100%. I'm going to upgrade the drivers shortly. Thanks!

[congenictv]

Hmm, what's wrong with having a bitrate that's 9000?

So you want to record at a higher quality than what the old drivers permitted?

Just wondering if i should update the drivers too, but i am worried about fixing something that isn't broken

[daphatty]

Hmm, what's wrong with having a bitrate that's 9000?

So you want to record at a higher quality than what the old drivers permitted?

Just wondering if i should update the drivers too, but i am worried about fixing something that isn't broken

I don't think 9000 is actually the full 100% quality bit rate. Only reason I say this is because I ran the FFMpeg utility on one of my recordings and one of the verbose messages decided to spit out the recording quality (89%). That sort of confirmed what my eyes had been telling me for quite some time, that my recordings looked worse than LiveTV via my television.

[congenictv]

That sort of confirmed what my eyes had been telling me for quite some time, that my recordings looked worse than LiveTV via my television.

I always accepted that mpeg-2 compression would result in poorer picture quality than what i saw on t.v... i should try recording in high and see if it makes a big diff. but default medium setting has always worked well for me.

thanks for explaining though!

[ydekmekji]

The only reason I mind at 9000 is because I usually burn my recordings on a DVD, which means that inevitably, I have to re-encode (usually through DVD Shrink) to fit on a DVD. Now that I can record at a lower bitrate, I don't have to use DVD shrink as often.