Help setting up quality..

[yuppicide]

I use a Hauppauge WinTV 150 and have just purchased BeyondTV4 and upgraded to 4.1.0

I can't achieve the same level of recording quality I did with the software that came with Hauppauge. The reason I switched is because the IR Blaster that came with the Hauppauge doesn't work with my cable box, so I bought a USB-UIRT.

I'm running digital cable, currently through a coax cable, but I'm gonna try the SVIDEO soon.

Second, if all I can record in is MPEG2 what settings should I use to get better quality?! If I use Overlay I can't adjust brightness, so I am using 3D with Hardware interlace. It gives me no picture unless I select hardware interlace. Here's my settings for BEST (DVD READY): in Web Admin:

Average Video Bitrate: 7000
Variable Bitrate Encoding: No
Stream Type: DVD Stream (I can also choose Program Stream or SVCD Stream)

Then it has settings that say:

Hardware Encoder Settings
(The following settings are only applied to supported hardware encoders.)


Bidirectional (Interpolative) Frames Per Group
0 1 2 -- it's set at 2
Predictive Frames Per Group
0 1 2 3 4 5 -- it's set at 5


... I don't mind if I have to record into MPEG2 because later I can convert to XVID with Vidomi. I do that to save space. I just want better quality input.

I edited this post.. I don't mind converting into DIVX/XVID because I see the problems on the forum people are having recording right into DIVX.

[cpmiv]

For PQ tweaking read this thread:
Setting up BTV

The reason you cannot record to Dvix or WMV is that you have a hardware encoding card. No way to change how it is going to output the captured video. There are Dvix capture cards but I believe only Plextor makes those. You can Showsqueeze (transcode) to another format if you like but some people are having problems with Dvix in 4.0 and 4.1.

Good Luck

[btvfreak]

See my reply to your post at the HTPCnews.com forums:
http://htpcnews.com/forums/index.php...dpost&p=129535