How do you tell what quality setting a show was recorded on?

[wayner]

I have been trying different quality settings but now that I have recorded a bunch of shows at different qualities how do I tell what quality setting they were recorded on?

I have tried from Web Admin and from "Recorded Shows" with BTV and neither do more than tell me the show is MPEG-2.

I guess the brute force way is to look at file size, but doesn't BTV have this info somewhere?

[Julia]

You should be able to right click on a file in explorer and go to properties and it will tell you. Or open the file in Windows Media player and click on File->Properties and it will tell you.

Julia

[wayner]

Originally posted by Julia
You should be able to right click on a file in explorer and go to properties and it will tell you. Or open the file in Windows Media player and click on File->Properties and it will tell you.

Julia

The Explorer and WMP Properties only appears to work for wmv files, not for mpg or avi(divx) files. Could that be a setup on my PC?

In addition, when I go to play MPEG files in WMP it tries to download a CODEC, gives me an error saying it could not find the codec, but then it plays the file ok.

When I try to play the avi(divx) files it only plays the audio, not the video. Doesn't BTV install the divx codecs that would allow WMP to play divx files?

[Julia]

I've always had the codecs for both installed on my system before installing Snapstream. The codecs should get installed. You might want to uninstall and try re-installing.

Julia