[mythtv-users] Question on file size for SD digital recordings

[Robin Hill]

On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 02:58:01PM -0400, Aaron Klein wrote:

> I have recorded a few SD digital shows and they seem to capture at a
> rate of 1GB per hour where as I am currently grabbing mpeg2 analog
> shows at double that rate.  Right now I don't see a way of changing
> the encode rate for the digital captures.  Is this indeed the case or
> maybe im missing something from my setup.
> 
No, there's no way to change the setting for digital captures.  There's
no encoding being done for these (the data's just dumped directly to
disk as it's received) so there's no physical way to increase the
bitrate (other than by injecting noise).

Cheers,
    Robin

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