Best video decoders?

[djon]

I have a Terratec H5 DVB-C card and per standard they use Cyberlink decoders. As especially HD eats around 100 MB/minut I was wondering if there wasn't some better options of decoders to use, that'll maintain the quality but won't make quite as large files?

[Tjod]

The decoder has nothing to do with recording. DVBViewer records exact the data which are received.

[djon]

Hmm but I can select different decoders if I want to. Are these only for viewing and has nothing to do at all with recording? Per default I can select Cyberlink and FFDShow.

[Tjod]

Are these only for viewing and has nothing to do at all with recording?

Yes the decoder are only for viewing.

[djon]

Ok, thanks.

[Gioxy]

especially HD eats around 100 MB/minut

Are you talking about recording the stream?

If so, it isn't a matter of decoder (the stream is recorded before being decoded), but maybe a matter of re-encode the stream...

But since you are considering HD content - usually already MPEG-4 compressed - I I regret to say that till now there wasn't any practically way to have a better compression, even more if you want not loose quality... in the real world you always have to sacrifice something (you can choose between resolution, frame rate, sharpness or color fidelity) to acheive a better compression, but as it is a very CPU intensive task, it's impossible to do any kind of re-encoding on-the-fly of HD material, and CPU power isn't the unique reason...