Re: Live TV has Poor Quality

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This is the registry path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Service\Recording

EncodingQuality
I set the bitrate for "Best" to 10000000

But I did not know that the 150mce had presets of what it can use, so this
weekend I will set it to 12000000 to see how much it improves. When I made
the above change, I did notice a slight improvement, but as I mentioned, I
will max it out to see the effect.

Thanks for your help, I will reply on Monday.
"Steve Punter" wrote:

> As the PVR-150MCE doesn't have a 6 megabit setting it will record at 8
> megabits when you set MCE to record at BEST. If you want MCE to record at 12
> megabits using an PVR-150MCE tuner card you can do this by changing a
> registry entry. I can't remember the path to it offhand, but the key you are
> looking for is called "EncoderQuality". It's a string of 4 numbers that
> represent the bitrates used by 4 different quality settings in MCE. You want
> to change the highest number to 12000000 (I forget the exact number of
> zeros, but you can figure that out easily enough from the numbers already
> there).
> ---
> Steve Punter
> http://www.arcx.com/sites
>
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>
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