Nielsen Media Research developed psychoacoustic encoding as the successor to its “Mark II” TV measurement device. That 20-year-old workhorse used taps and probes hard-wired into a TV or cable box that ...

There is no way a C3 could encode real-time full resolution or HD mpeg4. And there's no TV tuner card with hardware mpeg4 encoder.

So I have a bunch of West Wing episodes I recorded using my Hauppauge WinTV PVR card, and I want to compress them down to about half their size. I used to use BeyondTV for this, but I've migrated over ...