MPEG4 Compression Fails

[tyranocore]

Hey everyone, I'm using Autocompress to compress my recordings to MPEG4 HDTV Good Quality Deinterlaced AVI, but I'm having a problem compressing some of my recordings.

Some recordings will immediately fail conversion, while some will convert fine using the MPEG4 settings. I have had SD and HD content compress wonderfully with the MPEG4 compression setting above, however I have had one HD recording that will fail every time I try to convert it using MPEG4 compression (tried all MPEG4 compression settings); the same file that fails to compress with MPEG4 will compress fine using another setting (ie. DVD Standard Play).

SageMC v6.5.9, P4 3.2ghz, 2gb ram, GeForce 6800, HVR 1600


Any ideas?

[mrdrbdt]

+1

Edit: Wanted to add that I also get videos that complete compression, but upon play back the video framerate is about 1/2 normal.

[thorforyou]

I sent a bug report to Sage about the problems with compression and they told me to set my sat stb to 720 P. Now the compression is working ok for me.

[tyranocore]

interesting -- I was thinking it had to with the broadcast resolution... is there a way to change that if I'm not using a stb? just have my hvr 1600 receiving unencrypted qam signal from comcast

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by tyranocore

interesting -- I was thinking it had to with the broadcast resolution... is there a way to change that if I'm not using a stb? just have my hvr 1600 receiving unencrypted qam signal from comcast

No, you can only record the stream as it is. The HDPVR can accept multiple resolutions coming from analog devices (STBs')