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NVIDIA DualTV MCE User’s Guide
102 DU-01848-001_v06
03/28/06
17. What is MediaSqueeze and what are its benefits? How does
it work in my NVIDIA DualTV MCE?
Answer
NVIDIA
MediaSqueeze
™
compression technology allows you to store more of your
TV program recordings on your storage media. There are two aspects of
MediaSqueeze:
‰
NVIDIA DualTV can record your programs at a lower bit rate than competing
solutions while still providing good image quality. With a lower bit rate, the resulting
file size is smaller, so you can store more TV programs on your hard disk (or a DVD
when you archive your recordings). To use this aspect of MediaSqueeze, change the
recording quality settings in MCE or the video capture application you are using. Those
applications translate the quality setting into a bit-rate setting.
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NVIDIA DualTV’s MediaSqueeze technology can also be used to convert your TV
program recording files from a high bit rate to a lower bit rate. This is useful if you are
archiving a large number of TV program recordings to a DVD and they will not all fit.
To use this feature, you need a software application that takes advantage of NVIDIA
DualTV’s MediaSqueeze technology. This feature leverages the NVIDIA DualTV
hardware, ensuring high video quality without burdening the CPU of your system, and
without the long delay of software-based bit-rate conversion.
The following table summarizes how an NVIDIA DualTV MCE user can take
advantage of NVIDIA’s MediaSqueeze technology
.
NVIDIA DualTV MCE
Aspects of
MediaSqueeze
MCE
MyTV
Sonic MyDVD LE *
v6.1.1 or Later
Sonic MyDVD
Studio *
v6.1.1 or Later
Quality recording
at lower bit rate
TV
Recording
TV/video capture TV/video capture
Bit-rate conversion N/A Archive to DVD Archive to DVD
* Sonic MyDVD must be v6.1.1 or later to support NVIDIA DualTV. Bit-rate conversion is available when the video
was originally captured via Sonic MyDVD. Microsoft Movie Maker (comes with Microsoft Windows XP and Media
Center Edition 2005, not listed above) is supported by NVIDIA DualTV, but video compression is performed by
software.
Table 2. Application Support for MediaSqueeze