[mythtv-users] Is My transcoder not working?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Sat May 29 19:35:14 EDT 2004


Nicholas Devenish wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to mythtv (and linux, for that matter), and I've been setting 
> up recording and stuff. Problem is, the files are very large. a five 
> minute recording took about half a gigabyte, and even after I went 
> into edit, cut some stuff out to test and hit 'x' to transcode, it 
> only shrunk to 100mb. 100mb for three minutes of video? surely 
> something can't be right here.
>
> Also, I know my computer can encode dvd quality divx at about 1.4x 
> speed, so why does it have to record to such a raw format??
>
> Some other sizes i've got is 1.43gb for about half an hour (ater 
> transcoding again, I think), twice.
>
> Also, I'm recording something, the 'delete' screen says it's about 
> 4gb, with my other stuff of 1.6gb, 1.6gb and 0.1gb, and it says I have 
> used about 25gb of 30gb on my dedicated partition... something doesn't 
> add up.


Sounds like  you need to look at your recording profiles.


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