straight digital signal off the satellite onto my hard drive..using a hardware encoder which means absolutely no frame loss..a Haupauge 350 PVR for bout $150..so when i burn a game unto a dvd afterwards it looks almost as clean as HDTv...fellas this thing a whole lot better than TIVO.
Thanks for this.
148 mb is a pretty big for just 4 mins though.
i didn't check to see what the recording settings were before..i beleive this is MPEG2 or something...next time ill use DVD Long Play or something...this shit take a lil too long to upload lol.
Good job Feliziano.
Can you say how long it took you to upload the file.
Here are some other number that might be of interest. The 148MB, 3min44sec file was scheduled to take 1hr10 min to download on a home DSL line, and it took 12 min on the highest speed DLS PRO line. Considering downloading on a DSL home line, then a 90 min game (with the same settings) would take (70min/4)*90 = 26 hours 15 min.
The file itself is MPEG2 with a 720X480 frame size and 675 kB/sec average data rate. Hence in all likelihood it was recorded on the DVD extra long play. The quality is much better than the other highlight from EuroSport (can’t find the link right now), but that 19seconds (1.86 MB) divx file has a data rate of 97 kB/sec and if it was 4 min long it would have been 24 MB. Hence somewhere in between those two data rates might be a good compromise point. In either case the mpeg2 file is not standard DVD quality which incidentally has a data rate of 6-8 MB/sec; and it is not VHS quality. I am only stating that for technical reference. The quality is good for online transmission, but the time it takes to download and the file size is prohibitive if one is thinking about doing a whole game. To do a whole game you would need to use a different preset such as the SVCD or VCD. If the 4 min required a file size of 148 MB, the 90 min would yield a file of size 3.3 GB.
Anyway it looks good.