Your thought on this article about BeyondTV

[fiveirondraw]

http://www.digitalfaq.com/capture/no...nonatimpeg.htm

Read #4 under the heading "The Competition"

[flavius]

This should probably get moved to 'General Discussion'. On the other, since it does not have any substance ..
Edit: Maybe I should mention at least one real website: htpcnews.com.-

[Eric3a]

Simple thoughts really: It proves that you can find terrible and wrong info on the net.
Eric

[presto]

It's his opinion. It's a quick thumbnail sketch of available programs from the point of view of someone who isn't interested in using his computer as a Tivo-like device (like I am).

[Ziffelpig]

If you read everything within the context of the guide(mpeg capturing), Lordsmurf(Digital Faq) is only concerned with quality capturing, something which BTV3 hasn't got quite right, not the PVR itself.
I would also agree that BTV is not the best at capturing to mpeg,quality for the most part is so so, and not comparable to other similar captures even when the settings and bitrates are the same.
When I want to archive a series, or particular movie to DVD I still use my All in Wonder, and scheduler, bypassing BTV all together.(I have a PVR-250 as well)
To dismiss his site as without substance, or as providing terrible and wrong information, simply because he disagrees with your opinions on BTV's mpeg capture abilities,shows how far in the sand your heads are. Simply said there are much better ways to capture to mpeg than with BTV, Sage, Showshifter etc.
If BTV was serious about improving quality they would work on the encoder and seriously research the abilities MPEG 4 not DIVX/XVID.
The person who wrote the article and runs the site(DigitalFaq) is a very highly respected member of Videohelp.com(LordSmurf) and has years of experience in capturing/conversion and video restoration as well as evaluating and testing video related products, so I think he has a pretty good idea about which he speaks.
If you really want to get riled up read his take on hardware based mpeg encoders.Once again he is right on the money

[Phil_Roberts]

PowerVCR is a very, very bad program. I don't know why it's even in that review, except for the fact that it isn't freeware. It wasn't too bad for when it was written, but it's VERY old and somewhat buggy.

Try putting in multiple shows in the timer, especially from TitanTV and see if your 2nd or 3rd show is actually recorded.

[flavius]

Originally Posted by Ziffelpig

To dismiss his site as without substance..

That's exactly what I did. - EOT

[Ziffelpig]

Originally Posted by flavius

That's exactly what I did. - EOT

Well your certainly entitled to you opinion, as WRONG as it is
You also might want to quote the entire sentence, not just the part that serves your purpose, again it goes back to context.
Did you even read the article?
Read the message boards here, and all the complaints when it comes to the quality of capture for BTV.
If capture quality is not an issue for BTV, why are they beta testing other encoders?
BTV is mediocre at best when it comes to mpeg capturing, but probably the best PVR of those mentioned.-EOT

[fiveirondraw]

Originally Posted by Ziffelpig

When I want to archive a series, or particular movie to DVD I still use my All in Wonder, and scheduler, bypassing BTV all together.(I have a PVR-250 as well)

Ok guys, I am still new so try not to beat me up on this.

The AIW's capture at better quality than the PVR-250's? I didn't know this.
Why would I not just buy an AIW? Is it a hardware encoder like the PVR-250?

Please advise.
Jim

[Bryce]

Originally Posted by fiveirondraw

Ok guys, I am still new so try not to beat me up on this.

The AIW's capture at better quality than the PVR-250's? I didn't know this.
Why would I not just buy an AIW? Is it a hardware encoder like the PVR-250?

Please advise.
Jim

nope, the AIW is NOT better than a pvr-250. While on paper, the idea behind a software encoder that uses the power ofa high end CPU to caputer high quality sounds good....

the overwelming reallity of a software encoder is that they almost alwaysnever live up to their paper dreams.

the reason why not to get a AIW are....

1, if your system gets one little glitch during the encoding... frames will be droped.

2, since the AIW requires so much horsepower to run, you have very little horsepower left for post processing filters...

3, try and burn a DVD with a capture that has droped frames due to software encoding..... go ahead... we will wait.
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