Hi,

I have an Eye TV 1.3 DVR running on Mac OS X 10.2.8......

Having played around with the HQ and Standard VCD settings for recording quality I decided to see if it were possible to find a happy medium between the two. I tried recording the same peice of footage at HQ and Standard VCD, and then demuxed the HQ MPEG and compressed it using 3ivX (MPEG4) codec. The idea being that although this would loose some quality, it would be possible to use a sufficiently high MPEG4 bit rate to produce video of a quality higher than a straight standard VCD recording, but still saving on space. The results didn't seem to support this (well, the MPEG1 audio -> AAC audio @ 160kbps didn't suffer any real quality losses) with video detail turning out considerably worse than the same recording taken on Standard VCD quality. I was just wondering if anyone had any advice or knowledge on compressing the HQ video to produce good results (i.e. better than Standard VCD but at about the same bitrate)?

Cheers,

Phil.