What are the best settings for video and sound on my PVR-250?
Ok well the only thing that will actually make a difference in the quality is the bitrates. If you don’t bump up the bitrates when you move it to 720×480 then you may actually get a lower quality recording, because same amount of bits but higher resolution. 480×480 at the default bitrate should be fine. I use 480×480 at a lower bitrate just to reduce the filesize and I can’t really tell the difference. Standard NTSC is less than 480 lines of resolution anyways. The only time I’ve seen someone using the higher resolution and it actually making a difference was one person who was burning dvd’s and their player wouldn’t play them unless they were at the 720 resolution. As for the sound If I’m not mistaken it doesn’t make any difference what you set since the sound gets put in with the video in hardware before it reaches mythtv. I may be wrong on this one, but that’s what I gathered from the discussions on the list.
