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<blockquote data-quote="osksa" data-source="post: 1156017" data-attributes="member: 155144">Haha, what was only clicking checkboxes and radiobuttons in a gui, I don't change them manually. Actually don't know much about codecs, but I'm working on it =)Anyway, thank you for the tips, I downloaded GraphStudioNext, and clicked Graph-&gt;Insert Filter. Then I could access the property pages of all encoders, and change their setting. However, I could not get the changes to have any effect. Whenever I click OK and open the property page again, the changes are gone. When watching TV and viewing tuner details, the bitrate is always the same. Tried to start to watch TV with the property page open and bitrate changed. Also tried restarting the tv-server with properties open and changed. Nothing. I suppose I would need to connect to the encoding graph or something like that, and then change it. I connected to the MediaPortal graph, but it was only the decoding there. Encoding I suppose is done by the tv-server. And even if I could connect to a graph and change the bitrate, I still need to figure out how to make the changes stick. Any tips?For reference, here are the default bitrates of a few codecs:Codec: Bitrate type, average bitrate, peak bitrate for VBRATI: Variable, 4Mbit, 6MbitMainconcept (HCW): Variable 6Mbit, 8MbitMicrosoft: Constant, 7MbitSince the video encoded with ATI codec looks the same to me as video encoded with Mainconcept, I suppose ATI is doing a very efficient job. Will try to add the microsoft codec manually as described earlier in this thread to test.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="osksa, post: 1156017, member: 155144"] Haha, what was only clicking checkboxes and radiobuttons in a gui, I don't change them manually. Actually don't know much about codecs, but I'm working on it =) Anyway, thank you for the tips, I downloaded GraphStudioNext, and clicked Graph->Insert Filter. Then I could access the property pages of all encoders, and change their setting. However, I could not get the changes to have any effect. Whenever I click OK and open the property page again, the changes are gone. When watching TV and viewing tuner details, the bitrate is always the same. Tried to start to watch TV with the property page open and bitrate changed. Also tried restarting the tv-server with properties open and changed. Nothing. I suppose I would need to connect to the encoding graph or something like that, and then change it. I connected to the MediaPortal graph, but it was only the decoding there. Encoding I suppose is done by the tv-server. And even if I could connect to a graph and change the bitrate, I still need to figure out how to make the changes stick. Any tips? For reference, here are the default bitrates of a few codecs: [B]Codec: Bitrate type, average bitrate, peak bitrate for VBR[/B] ATI: Variable, 4Mbit, 6Mbit Mainconcept (HCW): Variable 6Mbit, 8Mbit Microsoft: Constant, 7Mbit Since the video encoded with ATI codec looks the same to me as video encoded with Mainconcept, I suppose ATI is doing a very efficient job. Will try to add the microsoft codec manually as described earlier in this thread to test. [/QUOTE]

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