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scavengertype · 10-20-2003, 01:31 PM

I have my old P3 500 box equipped with an ATI TV Wonder VE for use as a digital video recorder. I spent the better part of the weekend trying out different DVR/PVR softwares only to be right back with ATI Multimedia Center 7.9 (the newest version on ATI's site). Everything else I tried (Showshifter, WinDVR, PowerVCR, etc) just didn't seem to work the way I want it to, although Showshifter came close. (I tried Snapstream at an earlier date, brings the system to it's knees.)
I am pretty content using ATI Multimedia Center, but to get decent quality, I end up with HUGE files. I suppose I could reencode later, but I would like to end up with near-SVCD quality MPEG files right from the recordings.
Is this even possible on this machine without dropping half the frames? Is it even possible in ATI MMC? I can't seem to get the settings correct with a good balance of quality and file size.
If anyone uses ATI MMC and has the magic formula, or knows a better option, please let me know.

thanks...

10-20-2003, 01:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
scavengertype Tilted	Using ATI TV Wonder VE in a TIVO-ish way I have my old P3 500 box equipped with an ATI TV Wonder VE for use as a digital video recorder. I spent the better part of the weekend trying out different DVR/PVR softwares only to be right back with ATI Multimedia Center 7.9 (the newest version on ATI's site). Everything else I tried (Showshifter, WinDVR, PowerVCR, etc) just didn't seem to work the way I want it to, although Showshifter came close. (I tried Snapstream at an earlier date, brings the system to it's knees.) I am pretty content using ATI Multimedia Center, but to get decent quality, I end up with HUGE files. I suppose I could reencode later, but I would like to end up with near-SVCD quality MPEG files right from the recordings. Is this even possible on this machine without dropping half the frames? Is it even possible in ATI MMC? I can't seem to get the settings correct with a good balance of quality and file size. If anyone uses ATI MMC and has the magic formula, or knows a better option, please let me know. thanks... Last edited by scavengertype; 10-20-2003 at 01:33 PM..