pvrxxx recording

[Jim Stapleton]

OK, I found the problem. The emails made a little voice in the back of
my head start screaming "check the output bitrate numbskull!"

I looked over the output bitrate and got 360K. I tried upping it to
1200K and 1500K (-b in ffmpeg). It went from reencoding at 4-5x, but
the quality looked suitable. Still not as good as the original, but
good enough I can watch from my couch (where I like watching TV
anyway), without complaints.

The problem is, the 22MB/20second file turned into 16 and 17MB
respectivly. Not much compression improvement.

Can anyone reccomend a format combo that will achive a better
quality:size ratio than mpeg2video/mp2/mpeg? If ffmpeg doesn't work
well, could I get suggestions for a program (and the port that
provides the program)?

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton