Amazon Unbox On TiVo Video Quality
For those of you who care, the Amazon Unbox blog has posted some technical details about Unbox recordings that you can download to your TiVo. Here’s the technical mumbojumbo:
TiVo “Best Quality” File
* Video Encoding Type: 2-pass bitrate VBR
* Video Codec: MPEG-2
* Video Bitrate: 2800 kbps avg, 6600 kbps peak
* Video Frame Size: 640×480 - all 16×9 content is letterboxed
* Video Frame Rate: 23.98, 29.97 (same as source)
* Video Keyframe Interval: 4 seconds
* Audio Encoding Type: 2-pass bitrate VBR
* Audio Codec: MPEG-2 Layer 3
* Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps avg, 1000 kbps peak
* Audio Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz (same as source)
