[mythtv-users] Looking for trancoding suggestions

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Mon May 28 17:11:20 UTC 2007


> The best solution I can think of is to just put a bigger hard drive in
> the enclosure. 500GB drives are under $150 these days, and how much
> video do you really need to store? That's close to 250 hours at full DVD
> rate for SD.
> 
> It's the old "time vs. money" equation I suppose.
> 

I generally agree with this logic, but running a script to do the
transcoding and letting it run isn't really a time issue. Either way,
I'm still interested in what settings/options others have used with
success to create good quality videos while gaining significant disk
space.

Thanks,
James



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