Appropriate/Best way to record OTA HD?

[DCipher]

I have an HDTV5 Lite working great inside of sage 4.1.4.
My question is, what's the appropriate recording setting? I have it set at DVD Standard play (which i think is the highest level) - but is there a way to just have sage write out the TS? Do you lose anything by writing out MPEG?

I'm just looking for the highest possible quality from the card...

Thanks!
Jeff

[Opus4]

If you are recording HD, those recording quality settings don't apply -- the HD broadcast is simply saved as the stream comes in. (The quality settings are still there because some HD cards also have software encoders for SD.)

- Andy

[DCipher]

Hmmm. OK. So, the card is providing MPEG?

How come my episode of 24 that i recorded last night only took up 4 GB, when other HD stuff requires twice that? Still being compressed?

I guess I expected the card to stream .ts files (is a TS file just an mpeg file?)

Thanks for the help,
Jeff

[Opus4]

Is the recording complete (did it record the entire show)? Do you also have an analog card & it recorded from another channel instead of the HD airing? Does the recording have the HD marker on it? (The default STV uses such a marker, but I don't know about the one you are using.)

- Andy

[DCipher]

I believe the recording is complete.
I only have 1 card in my machine and it's the HDTV5 Lite. So, i know it recorded from the DT feed of fox and i know that the show is broadcast in hi-def. When i got to the file properties for the mpeg file, it says it's 1280x720. Don't know if that means anything...
I did not see an "HD" marker on it.. not sure if sageMC16x9 does that or not.


Thanks,
Jeff

[malore]

I've noticed an hour show recorded Fox was roughly the size of half hour shows on the other networks. Fox and maybe ABC broadcast in 720p while I think everyone else uses 1080i, which may offer a slight size reduction. The rest may be the result of better compression.