[MacDV] Recording TV to Mac

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 5/29/05 at 9:25 AM, Steve Robertson <stever at mindspring.com>
transmitted the following electronic message:

>
>On Saturday, May 28, 2005, at 06:55  PM, Kunga wrote:
>> Meanwhile there are a ton of 350 MB (1 commercials are already
>> edited out hour=43 minutes) HDTV Dolby Digital 5.1 shows on the web
>> already encoded and ready for playing.
>
>Where do you find these shows?
>

alt.binaries.tv, alt.binaries.tvseries, alt.binaries.multimedia, and a
bunch of other alt.binaries groups, some series-specific. The bulk are
encoded using divx5 or xvid, but the audio in the 350MB versions is
typically MP3. Those encoded with Dolby Digital 5:1 (AC3) are typically
700MB for a "1 hr" (really about 43 minute) episode, but the video
bitrate is also higher than in the 350MB versions. The 350MB are usually
640x358 @ 1250-1300bps, NTSC Film, MP3 audio @ 112kbs. The AC3s are
usually around 960x568 @ 2700kbs and AC3 5 channel @384kbs.

You can check to see where various content of this sort is posted by
genre for the past week at www.newzbin.com (tv, movies, etc.)

-- 
Dennis R. Cohen