On 4/26/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm just learning about MythTV at this point. It's setup and > > > working nicely but using up disk space rather quickly. Is 2GB/Hr. more > > > or less typical for recording TV programs or are the optimizations I > > > need to study next to save space? > > that's roughly what i get too (~2.1 - 2.3GB/hr). i'm filling up my > 300GB hard drive faster than i can watch the Modern Marvels episodes > i've been recording. :) > > > PS Start looking at bigger hard drives... :) > > or you can check out 'transcode', which will significantly shrink the > size of your files but will also reduce the quality some. it's not > easy to find simple instructions on how to use it though. i'm still > digging through the archives and transcode man pages...
Thanks all. That's exactly the sort of info I'm looking for. I'm fine with a 35GB partition for now. 17 hours of material is all I need. Long term I might want to encode some material more tightly and save stuff longer but it's not necessary today. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
