Have you made sure that you select appropriate recording profile (the same one you used for on-the-fly recording) before scheduled recording?
Thanx for your replies and efforts in helping me. Yes ... I am having my problems ...<g>... but its not entirely my fault. If I use the MC Scheduler for testing, it then fails to relinguish "TV control" for the sake of getting into the 'advanced options' ... and I have to reboot. This may have something to do with MC9.1 trying to control my ATI AIW 9700P ... but I don't believe I had the same problem with MC9.0. (Yaobing, please indicate which TV card you're using). As it goes, I stand and watch each 'on the fly' recording, trying to grab exactly 36second (which is a hundredth of an hour)
Yaobing states in a previous thread:
I did a quick test, using JRiver Video Codec for video compression, at Quality setting of 7, and video size 640 x 240, and WMA audio compression at 160kbps, a ten minute recording takes up 2 GB for the temp file, and 2 GB for the final destination file. That is about 12 GB / hour
I cannot duplicate this because I cannot find a video Codec with JRiver's name on it ... neither can I seem to find WMA audio compression for 160kbps.
Here are some of my observations after playing with many of the different permutations:
Video in general:
If I ask for res of 640x240, the result is a squashed picture (and the display aspect ratios settings ... 4:3, stretch, etc ... don't seem to affect it). If I select Windows Media for a WMV file, the resulting picture size is only 640x480 in my 800x600 TV display ... whereas choosing AVI and 640x480 results in a full display. Playing with WMV versus AVI, the compression is much better for WMV, resulting in ~6-10Gb/hour, whereas, AVI seems to be consistently 10 times that size. So if I can figure out why WMV will not fill my screen, I might be in business (although see below).
Audio in general:
AVI files give me the best sound, practically indistinguishable from the original ... but this may be a result of the very little commpression I am seeing with AVI. WMV, on the other hand, yields terrible sound ... not even worthy of any of the compression settings I am experimenting with. It is very choppy, and full of audio repeats. I believe something is wrong here, I cannot believe this quality of audio compression is representative of any of the compression settings offered ... and I cannot even get rid of it.
Regarding the compression offerings I see, my video options are:
DV video encoder
Indeo Video 5.10 video compression filter
Cinepac by Radius
Indeo Video 5.10
Microsoft Video 1
ATI YUV12 format codec
ATI YUV12 format codec (yep, 2 instances)
no compression
and for audio:
WMV:
none offered, except for data (e.g., frequency, bit-depth, mono v stereo)
AVI:
(a bunch, many of which fail (i.e., give me an error sound upon selection)
WM Speech encoder
WMaudio encoder
ATI MPEG encoder
IAC2
Learnout & Hauspie CELP
Learnout & Hauspie SBC 8kbps
Learnout & Hauspie SBC 12kbps
Learnout & Hauspie SBC 16kbps
IMA ADPCM
PCM
Microsoft ADPCM
DSP Group Truespeech
GSM 6.10
Microsoft G 723.1
CCITT A-L-aw
CCITT u L-aw
no compression
I have tried almost as many of these as offered, and cannot seem to duplicate anyone's results. It could be I'm making it harder than it is, but I haven't stumbled onto the right combo yet. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong??