[mythtv-users] Re: Hardware Recommendations?
Daniel Segel
mythtv at archer-segel.com
Fri Jun 3 20:54:45 UTC 2005
My PVR-350 at 720x480 produces files that are about 2.4GB/hour with a
high bit rate, or about 5GB for a 2 hour+ movie. Transcoding can reduce
that by half again, but it loses quality so I don't bother. Disk space
is cheap.
Daniel
Todd Bowman wrote:
> I've looked at the HW MPEG2 encoders but MPEG2 seems to take up too
> much room. I tried using the SW MPEG2 encoding in MythTV and within
> one day my 160GB disk was filled. Even though I turned on automatic
> transcoding to MPEG4, the recordings just seemed to get ahead of the
> transcoding. Once the disk was full, it couldn't transcode any more.
> Do the HW encoders produce smaller video files? I don't remember the
> exact file size but I think a 2.5 hour program was something like
> 26GB! (640x480)
>
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