[mythtv-users] The Final Nail in MythTranscode?

[Ian Evans]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:45 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
[snip]
>     In particular, old SD reruns on broadcast HD channels are especially
> wasteful. They take up far more space than they need to while being of
> inferior quality to an aggressively transcoded DVD rip.

Amen. I've got a couple of hundred episodes of an old SD series
broadcast on a 1080 network. Transcode out the commercials and
handbrake it down to SD and I'm looking at 150MB instead of 2+ GB