[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:18:38PM -0500, Kevin Hulse wrote:
> > "MPEG2 doesn't compress very well, and almost no one's making MPEG4
> > hardware tuners."
> 
> 	Clean MPEG2 compresses VERY well. Splitting up things like
> closed captions and subtitles and extra audio tracks is a much 
> bigger bother than "MPEG2 doesn't compress very well".
> 
> 	Effective MPEG2 compression of movies (as opposed to TV whether
> it's recorded or off of DVDs) does take a heap big amount of cpu time.
> The resulting files take more brute force to decode too.
> 
> 	But I wouldn't exactly say that MPEG2 doesn't compress well.

"MPEG2 doesn't compress noisy analog OTA well."

:-)

Yes, illegally leaked digital-all-the-way network stuff is 175MB/half-hour
but the stuff *we* record is twice that.  Or more.

Cheers,
-- jra
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