[mythtv-users] Transcoded recording got larger!

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Aug 6 05:20:22 UTC 2008


On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:09 PM, lindsay.mathieson wrote:

> I just tested transcoding a 5.3GB HD Recording. All settings
> are the defaults, the transcoding used the default MPEG2
> profile. The recording went from 5.3GB to 8GB, isn't it
> supposed to shrink?

Transcoding a recording doesn't shrink the recording. It transcodes it  
to what you tell it to transcode it to.
Yes, usually people tell it to transcode to something smaller. You  
apparently didn't.

> One possible factor I can think of is its almost certainly a
> SD program that's been upscaled to HD.
>
> What I want to achieve is some fairly large space reduction
> - I have 20 scrubs recordings I do want to watch but don't
> have the time now and I need the space for other things. I'm
> quite happy with the average 1 episode divx files you can
> D/L off the net and they're typically only 350MB, so I was
> hoping for something like that.

Try a different profile or modify the profile you used to choose a  
video size that is smaller than the one you're starting with.



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