[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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