Hauppauge PVR-250 users - What are your settings

[mreed80]

To those using this card, I was curious what people do to capture TV and burn to DVD.
I have been toying around with it for a while now and have got pretty good results, but just curious if I'm maybe missing something that might help me out.

Currently I cap to MPEG2 in DVD Extended long play with a VBR of around 3000

Then I clip out the commercials in TMPGE(2pass seems to help). If I do and hour program that comes out to about 44 minutes without commercials, and then make it about 25% of the disc, so it is compressing it a bit. That normally puts it a little over 1GB, and I tend to get some blockiness. If I do about 30% of the disc, I get much better results.
Doing TV series that have 13 episodes(The Shield or anything on HBO), you have to put four episodes on one disc, unless you want to burn another disc for one episodes which I prefer not to do.

Any help would be great, thanks.

[SHS]

Mine set like this
Program Stream
GOPs 15
VBR 4500 TO 6000 PEAK
720x480
Stereo
MPEG1 layer 2
Audio 224
CRC Off
48 KHz

[Ironballs]

Off this thread's topic, but I have a PVR250 and it captures great. When I author the DVD compliant MPG the Audio and Video go way out of sync. Have any of you had this problem.

I use ulead moviefactory to author. Any help much appriciated.

[Lurkin]

Doing TV series that have 13 episodes(The Shield or anything on HBO), you have to put four episodes on one disc, unless you want to burn another disc for one episodes which I prefer not to do.

Correct me if I am wrong but doing the math 4x4x4x1 = 13 just the same as 3x3x3x3x1 = 13 so either way your going to end up with 1 episode alone in a 13 show season, might as well just chalk up that 1 extra disc for the better quality.

Not to mention normally the final episode of a season is longer than the first 12 episodes.

[mreed80]

Well, what I was saying was that the 3 episodes per disc works, so I do
3 x 3 x 3 x 4 = 13

So I get 3 discs with the good quality and one with a little poorer.


So how much time can you all fit onto one DVD?

[maineiac]

I use DVD Long Play with the default settings for that.

I also had considerable audio/video sync problems with DVD Movie Factory. I now use Pinnacle Studio 8 and have no audio sync problems.