[mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)

[Josh Burks]

On 9/20/05, Tony McDowell <svet-am at cableone.net> wrote:
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> Thanks for the insight.  If I just keep it as MPEG2, what kind of file size
> should I expect?  I'm imagining about a gigabyte per hour.  Is that high,
> low, other?

I'm not sure of my settings, but with a PVR-250 (mpeg2) I'm recording
at 2.5 gigabytes/hour.

I believe the average is ~2 to 2.2 GB/hr.

Josh