Quality settings for the PVR 250/350 can be added by modifying the properties file. You don't need to specify all of the parameters for the quality setting; below is the list of the available parameters, their possible values, and their defaults. These are not case sensitive. QualityName - is the name that will show up in SageRecorder for the Record quality option. Don't use any spaces or non-alphanumeric characters for the name unless you understand using backslash to do escape sequences. audiooutputmode - 0 for stereo, 1 for joint, 2 for dual, and 3 for mono. stereo is the default audiocrc - 0 for off, 1 for on. off is the default gopsize - 15 and 6 are valid. 15 is the default videobitrate - in bits/second. 4000000 is the default (4 Mbps) inversetelecine - 0 is off, 1 is on. default is off closedgop - 0 is off, 1 is on. default is off vbr - 0 is off, 1 is on. default is off outputstreamtype - 0 for Program Stream, 2 for MPEG1 stream, 10 for DVD compliant stream, 11 for VCD compliant stream. Program Stream is the default width - 720, 480 or 352. 720 is the default (NOTE valid widthxheight combos are 720x480, 480x480, 352x480 and 35x240) height - 240 or 480. 480 is the default audiobitrate - in kilobits/second 192, 224, 256, 320, 384. default is 384 audiosampling - 32000, 44100, 48000. default is 48000 peakvideobitrate - in bits/second. This max bitrate when using VBR mode make the videobitrate 1.5x lower see the examples. For SageRecorder; you only need to add one property per quality setting. SageRecorder.properties file: Examples SageRecorder property setting. mmc/python2_encoding/QualityName=videobitrate=2800000|width=480|height=480|audiobitrate=256 Example for HQ DVD. mmc/python2_encoding/MyDVD=videobitrate=4500000|width=720|height=480|audiobitrate=224|vbr=1|peakvideobitrate=6000000 Example for VCD. mmc/python2_encoding/VCD=videobitrate=1520000|width=352|height=240|audiobitrate=224|outputstreamtype=11|audiosampling=44100 Example for backslash. seeker/recording_qualities/MyDVD\ -\ 2\ hour=MyDVD,224,48000,6000000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of SageTV 2.1, the seeker/recording_qualities properties are no longer used. You only need to specify the python2_encoding property as listed above. For SageTV; you need to add the same property you did with SageRecorder; but you also need to add another property that includes additional bitrate information. It's format is as follows: SageTVQualityName - is the name that will show up in SageTV for the quality option. Don't use any spaces or non-alphanumeric characters for the name unless you understand using backslash to do escape sequences. QualityName - refers to the property setting you created above 384 - is the audio bitrate in kbps, and is irrelevant (but must be present) because the one above overrides it 48000 is the audio sampling rate, and is also irrelevant (but must be present) because the one above overrides it 4444444 - is the overall bitrate of the entire stream in bits/second For SageTV; you only need to add one property per quality setting. Sage.properties file: Examples on the SageTV property setting. seeker/recording_qualities/SageTVQualityName=QualityName,384,48000,4444444 Example for HQ DVD. seeker/recording_qualities/MyDVD=MyDVD,224,48000,6000000 mmc/python2_encoding/MyDVD=videobitrate=4500000|width=720|height=480|audiobitrate=224|vbr=1|peakvideobitrate=6000000 Example for VCD. seeker/recording_qualities/VCD=VCD,224,44100,15200000 mmc/python2_encoding/VCD=videobitrate=1520000|width=352|height=240|audiobitrate=224|outputstreamtype=11|audiosampling=44100 Example for backslash. seeker/recording_qualities/MyDVD\ -\ 2\ hour=MyDVD\ -\ 2\ hour,224,48000,6000000 mmc/python2_encoding/MyDVD\ -\ 2\ hour=videobitrate=4500000|width=720|height=480|audiobitrate=224|vbr=1|peakvideobitrate=6000000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefiltering settings can be added to the quality settings, here's the names of the variables to use: disablefilter - 0:Disable, filter settings will be disabled. medianfilter - 0:Disable, 1:Horizontal, 2:Vertical, 3:Horz&Vert(default), 4:Diagonal mediancoringlumahi - 0 to 255 (default 0) mediancoringlumalo - 0 to 255 (default 255) mediancoringchromahi - 0 to 255 (default 0) mediancoringchromalo - 0 to 255 (default 255) lumaspatialflt - 0:Disable, 1:1D Horiz, 2:1D Vert, 3:2D Horz & Vert Seperatable(default), 4:2D Non Seperable chromaspatialflt - 0:Disable, 1:1D Horz(default) dnrmode - 0:StaticBoth, 1:StaticTime/DynamicSpace, 2:DynamicTime/StaticSpace, 3:DynamicBoth(default) dnrspatialfltlevel - 0 to 15 (default 0) - used in static mode only dnrtemporalfltlevel - 0 to 15 (default 0) - used in static mode only dnrsmoothfactor - 0 to 255 (default 200) dnr_ntlf_max_y - 0 to 15 (default 15) - max NTLF Luma dnr_ntlf_max_uv - 0 to 15 (default 15) - max NTLF Chroma dnrtemporalmultfactor - 0 to 255 (default 48) - temporal filter multplier factor dnrtemporaladdfactor - 0 to 15 (default 4) - temporal filter add factor dnrspatialmultfactor - 0 to 255 (default 21) - spatial filter multiplier factor dnrspatialsubfactor - 0 to 15 (default 2) - spatial filter sub factor lumanltflevel - 0 to 15 lumanltfcoeffindex - 0 to 63 lumanltfcoeffvalue - 0 to 255 vimzoneheight - 0 to 15 (default 2) Example for Prefiltering settings mmc/python2_encoding/MyDVD\ -\ 2\ hour=videobitrate=4500000|width=720|height=480|audiobitrate=224|vbr=1|peakvideobitrate=6000000|disablefilter=0|dnrsmoothfactor=180 Thanks to SHS, www.shspvr.com for the examples.