Large Pro7 Bitrate Differences

[Technofriend]

Schweiz/Austria: 650

Germany: 450

 

I know that this is not new, but is there a reason for that?

Do they need the spare bits for AC3, or do they use a better compression (eg. very variable bitrate) ?

As the bitrate seems to fluctuate much more on the german channel.

 

 

EDIT:

I just made a bit more research:

It's the same with all channels that I tried: Sat1, Pro7, RTL2, Kabel1.

 

As a rule of thumb I found that it is always a good idea to choose the austrian version of a channel by default if quality is the issue.

 

Or the german channel if harddisk-space is the issue...

[Klausing]

Yes AC3 needs a bit from the whole bitrate.

Bitrate = A+V <-- Schweiz and Austira

Bitrate = A+V+AC3 <-- Germany

IMHO is the Bitrate the same. On the recorder window you see only for the recordet PINs (V+A or V+AC3) Thats the reason why schweiz and Austria have a better picture.

 

Steffen