Mpeg quality

[Tim]

Hi Jaffaman,

Just got my Toppy 7100 up and running. Have copied off some recorded
mpg files to play and send to dvd, but the quality seems a bit choppy
- as if the fps is not quite good enough (my best effort to explain
the slightly jerky output) - is there a specific codec i should be
using to view it? I was trying to play it in Vista media centre pc,
and initially it didnt have codec. I downloaded Vista codec pack and
it played after that, but appears to be less quality than on the main
large screen plasma. I know your program is designed to create mpegs
from other video types, but I thought you would probably be the best
reservoir of knowledge.

anyway, if not, not to worry.

cheers
Timbo

[jaffaman]

Hi Tim,

Sorry for the slow reply - been on holidays. The quality from the 7100
should be great, not choppy. The format is mpeg transport stream (TS)
format - the easiest is to leave it in that format get a suitable
player for it. Two popular media players that should handle it without
problems are VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) and MPlayer (http://
www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html) - look around this link to find a
suitable compiled version. Mplayer seems to play every format ever
made, though it doesn't have the flashiest of interfaces. I'm not
really all that up on various codec packs for windows media player
though a quick search did find a few. Hope that helps.