[MacDV] Recording TV to Mac

[Kunga]

Well that may be so, but the 350 MB (43 minute) versions look  
fantastic on my 1920 x 1200 display and sound great too.

k

On May 30, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Dennis R. Cohen wrote:

> 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