What formats can we record in? MPEG? DVR-MS? TS? (2 Viewers)

[Keneo]

As far as I can tell, we are only able to record in .TS format.


Is there a place where we can change that?

 

[rekenaar]

Hi

Only ts is supported now.

 

[Keneo]

Hi

Only ts is supported now.

Oh well. I suppose thats ok. But what about quality settings?

Can we adjust the "quality vs. file size" of a recording anywhere? Some of the things I've been recording dont require High quality that uses up 2 GB of disk space. Others do.

If this option isn't available, it ought to be on the to-do list.

 

[romuz]

for all digital sources recording gets content as-is
Portal doesnt change anything
Transcoding is not a task of MediaPortal

 

[Keneo]

It seems you are saying that MP doesn't do any compression, but instead just writes the stream to the drive directly.
So can someone explain why the video quality of my 1 hour long , 2GB files is very grainy? and yet when I record similar programs using Meedio, the picture is far nicer.

I am using MPC-Home Cinema to play them back.

 

[tourettes]

So can someone explain why the video quality of my 1 hour long , 2GB files is very grainy? and yet when I record similar programs using Meedio, the picture is far nicer.

In that case I would assume you are using analog tv. With digital tv there won't be any difference in quality, no matter what application is used (unless transcoding is done).

I think there is some settings for analog that allow you to chose the quality used in recordings (sorry, haven't ever used analog personaly).

 

[Keneo]

Yes, it was analog.

After a lot of fiddling, I foundout that my analog Video Source was set to SVHS. After switching to CVBS the graininess disappeared. so all is good!

Thank you so much for your help

 

[Spragleknas]

Sidenote: SVHS (s-video) is superior to CVBS (composite).
For some analogue cards, you can set the quality manually in TV server, which helps a lot on PQ thx: misterd).