Daniel Dornacher wrote:
my vdr is doing very well. pvr 150 and vdr-xine output with xvmc acceleration. But i have one "big" problem. vdr calculates the time which is left wrong. I have 4500 kbits for the video stream. (and x for audio) but i doubt that it's the right value in hours. I think it is computing the videostream rate with something like near 6000 kbit.
VDR estimates 25.75 Mb per minute to calculate remaining time from free space, thats 3600 mbit/s (video+audio). This works quite well for sat recordings, but may be wrong for other sources.
Digital TV encoders for DVB transmission do a very good job carefully pre-processing and encoding to mpeg2, and fast software encoders and end-user hardware encoders cannot compete against that regarding quality per mbit, so they usually have noticeably higher bit rates.
The value of 25.75 Mb per minute is hard-coded as MB_PER_MINUTE within menu.c.
Cheers,
Udo