On 9/24/2017 6:37 AM, NY wrote:
"mike" wrote in message
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.wtv files seem to have fewer motion artifacts than
alternative compressed formats.

I'd have though that all off-air recordings, in DVR-MS, WTV and TS
formats, would be identical apart from the wrapper around the data. So
I'd have expected the same degree of motion and JPEG compression artefacts.

I think the point is that .wtv files aren't compressed. That's why they're
so huge. The off-air data just gets shoved onto the drive.
If you use some other storage format, it takes a lot of horsepower to get
the video onto the hard drive...and back off again.
I can record 4 channels and play a .wtv recording simultaneously with a
2.8GHZ dual core pentium. Virtually all the horsepower is consumed
by rendering the video.

The reduction in artifacts is due to the lack of compression.
I think the limit is the disk drive bandwidth. When the system is
busy, I sometimes see major pixellation on a scene change, but it
recovers quickly and the frame skip is pretty effective.

Only complaint I have is that I messed something up and can't seamlessly
skip forward any more.

It just works...if you don't fork it up rebuilding the system.

Or if MS to fork it up for you by removing WMC if you upgrade to W10.
That ain't gonna happen until there's something that I absolutely,
positively,
have to have that only works in win10. I've put the free upgrade on 18
systems justincase...but they are mostly reverted to win7.


I agree that WMC has a nice UI, and seems to work with all devices that
I've tried. I've not tried it with multiple tuners, mainly because of
cowardice: I didn't want to mess up a system that was working well with
one tuner.
If it works with either tuner, it should work with both. I have seen
reports
that you may have problems if you have two tuners that are exactly the same
so that the system can't tell which is which.

WMC's only frustration is that you cannot schedule two overlapping
recordings *even if they are on the same multiplex*.

Don't understand what that means. If you have only one tuner, how
could you record more than one stream? With multiple tuners, I record
overlapping broadcasts just fine.

It has that advantage over NextPVR that you can ask it to look for
programmes that are not yet listed in the EPG: you can say (effectively)
"look out for the movie XYZ or the TV series ABC if it happens to the
scheduled any time in the future" whereas with Next PVR you can only
schedule programmes that are in the EPG (or add a manual LCN, date,
times recording).
Tell me more. I haven't found ANY alternative FREE EPG that works on
US broadcasts.
But, that deficiency would make it a no-starter anyway.