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<blockquote data-quote="Simfreak" data-source="post: 955907" data-attributes="member: 135614">The HDPRV doesn't transcode. Its taking the RAW video signal from the source component, encodes it into h.264, stuffs it into a TS stream and transfers that stream to the computer hard drive where it is stored. This is how all encoders work, except sometimes to encode is in mpeg instead of h264 etc.Just like with other hardware encoders you can adjust the bitrate of which the source is captured at, which is what i am referring to. As far as frame rate goes, i was testing on my gaming computer which is set to 60hz. I was getting very little in the terms of dropped frames, so i do not think that was the issue. I think over the course of 20 mins i had about 10 dropped frames reported. &nbsp;Transcoding is different. Transcoding is taking one format and converting it to another or adjusting the current codec for things like bitrate/framerate etc. Which is not whats happening since the source is RAW video from the digital receiver. &nbsp;In either case i figured out half of it. After installing the ARC software i set the encode rate to the MAX and now can confirm on my recordings from MP that they are 15MBs;My problem now is the actual playback from MP server to the MP client; This appears to be streaming at 2MBs which tells me that MP is doing some sort of Transcoding when sending to the client. This is where i need help editing the stream rate or transcoding that MP is using to send to the client. If there is anyone else that had input on this I would appreciate it. a 1080p recording played back at 2MBs is pretty bad when compared to just using the Network DVR that comes from DTV.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simfreak, post: 955907, member: 135614"] The HDPRV doesn't transcode. Its taking the RAW video signal from the source component, encodes it into h.264, stuffs it into a TS stream and transfers that stream to the computer hard drive where it is stored. This is how all encoders work, except sometimes to encode is in mpeg instead of h264 etc. Just like with other hardware encoders you can adjust the bitrate of which the source is captured at, which is what i am referring to. As far as frame rate goes, i was testing on my gaming computer which is set to 60hz. I was getting very little in the terms of dropped frames, so i do not think that was the issue. I think over the course of 20 mins i had about 10 dropped frames reported. Transcoding is different. Transcoding is taking one format and converting it to another or adjusting the current codec for things like bitrate/framerate etc. Which is not whats happening since the source is RAW video from the digital receiver. In either case i figured out half of it. After installing the ARC software i set the encode rate to the MAX and now can confirm on my recordings from MP that they are 15MBs; My problem now is the actual playback from MP server to the MP client; This appears to be streaming at 2MBs which tells me that MP is doing some sort of Transcoding when sending to the client. This is where i need help editing the stream rate or transcoding that MP is using to send to the client. If there is anyone else that had input on this I would appreciate it. a 1080p recording played back at 2MBs is pretty bad when compared to just using the Network DVR that comes from DTV. [/QUOTE]

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