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    5760 - messing around with TV tuner ...

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by p_boucher, Oct 3, 2006.

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    Ok, I've started messing around a little more with the lifeview TV tuner and even though it's not MCE compatible, i am starting to appreciate it a little more.

    Why?
    1. Download latest software and drivers from Clevo website.
    2. Download DIVX 6.2 and install.
    3. In the settings of the crappy software, change the way you record TV shows. Switch it from MPEG to system and in the drop box, select divx 6.2.5.
    4. Now go into properties and mess with the options. The one that give me the best results are in the video properties (texture amelioration or something like that).

    Now you can dynamically encode TV shows in DIVX. Some settings gives pretty good results and allow to clean up some of the noise in the analog signal captured.

    There is a point though where you can't encode in real time because video starts stuttering.

    If some messed with this, what are your best options for encoding? A 2 hours movie I encoded in MPEG took 3.6gb. I've yet to try it with divx :). Is there a way to re-encore MPEG movies to DIVX with all the quality maxed out? What's the best (free or not) tool for this?

    No luck getting analog FM radio signals though. It this possible?
     
    p_boucher, Oct 3, 2006
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