Adaptec AVC-3610 Quality Setting

[tvguy1]

No matter what changes I make to the quality setting, the file size and picture quality are the same. I have tried recording high, medium, low and custom. Is there away to make changes to make the file size smaller? Is this a limitation of my capture card the Adaptec AVC-3610. I tried making changes to the ini file, but still the file size and picture quality are the same. I searched the forum for the answer, but did not find an answer for my type of tv card. Any help anyone can be will greatly be appreciated.

[sub]

Changing the video resolution wont work with this device, but it should be able to change the bitrate. Try a recording, then zip and attach the GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log and I'll check the bitrate is applying correctly.

[tvguy1]

I recorded a few minutes of "According to Jim" at low quality and a few minutes of "King of Queens" at medium. I hope I attached the right files. If I need to send something else please let me know. Thanks for your help.

[sub]

Unfortunately there isnt any universal standard way of setting the bitrate etc with capture cards. GB-PVR tries the most common ways, which covers the vast majority of cards, but unfortunately this device looks like it uses some other non-standard mechanism. Sorry.

I dont hold much hope for it working, but you could try setting INIT_MODE=IVAC in the [Adaptec AVC-3610] section of the direct.ini file then try again. I suspect it'll do nothing more than result in a few errors in the logs, but worth trying.

[tvguy1]

I thank you for your help and time. Can you suggest a dual tuner card that might work? I'm thinking of the Nvidia dual tuner or Avermedia dual tuner. Basically what I want to do is record the show or movie and dump it to a DVD so I take with me, if I do an hour show it works great and over an hour will not fit on the DVD. Thanks.

[sub]

The Hauppauge PVR500 gives you full control over this type of stuff.

The Nvidia dual tuner is a discontinued product now, so probably not a good buy. I dont know anything about the Avermedia devices.

[tvguy1]

Thanks Sub.

Apparently that change worked. I recorded two shows at low quality. The 1 hour program file size was 1.2GB and the 2 hour program was 2.87GB. Thanks for all your help.

[sub]

Great.