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? > > It seemed to me that when I recorded from /dev/vl4/video0 directly >I thought I was using more like 200MB or 400MB/hr. but maybe I'm >mistaken. > > Anyway, thanks in advance for replying with a few numbers for >comparison and (assuming I'm on the high end) some ideas about what I >should study to get the disk usage down. > > Thanks very much for a great program! > >
Recording profiles are useful in saving space. For instance my Low Quality profile records at about 1GB/Hr, I use this on low action shows that I record daily such as The Daily Show. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
