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I was wondering if anyone has had experience capturing video from an
MPEG DVB satellite receiver (like Dish Network, Express Vu, etc)? I
find that the actual video from these sources don't seem to have the
crisp video that you get from the analog video from the BUD (Big Ugly
Dish). I was told on the MPEG DVB newsgroup that the source is run
through a Low Pass filter before encoding to allow them to use a lower
bitrate. I guess that's why to me the picture looks "soft" compared
to good analogue video. THis allows them to fit more channels in the
same bandwidth.
Anyway, I have tried various capture methods (the stream is already
compressed MPEG), and if you capture in say MP2 you get video equal
to what's on screen but file sizes are large for archiving..
I also tried capturing in both MJPEG and HUFFYUV, and Huffyuv gives
the best quality AVI. However, the problem comes in when you try to
further compress it.
I wonder if anyone has come up with a method for archiving their
favorite shows and just what method you have found best compromise
between quality and size? Suggestions?
I was wondering if anyone has had experience capturing video from an
MPEG DVB satellite receiver (like Dish Network, Express Vu, etc)? I
find that the actual video from these sources don't seem to have the
crisp video that you get from the analog video from the BUD (Big Ugly
Dish). I was told on the MPEG DVB newsgroup that the source is run
through a Low Pass filter before encoding to allow them to use a lower
bitrate. I guess that's why to me the picture looks "soft" compared
to good analogue video. THis allows them to fit more channels in the
same bandwidth.
Anyway, I have tried various capture methods (the stream is already
compressed MPEG), and if you capture in say MP2 you get video equal
to what's on screen but file sizes are large for archiving..
I also tried capturing in both MJPEG and HUFFYUV, and Huffyuv gives
the best quality AVI. However, the problem comes in when you try to
further compress it.
I wonder if anyone has come up with a method for archiving their
favorite shows and just what method you have found best compromise
between quality and size? Suggestions?