On 4/26/05, Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 22:09 26/04/2005, you 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? > > > > > > 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. > > > > > I get about the same rate/hour with my PVR-350. > I just checked back on my recorded shows via Mythweb and a 1 hour (or close > to) episode of "No Angels" is 2.3Gb. > > I normally record on High quality at the moment as I tend to be getting the > same few shows on a weekly basis and would prefer having them in better > quality. I did have a couple of things recorded on the default settings but > I've watched and since deleted them this weekend.
I didn't knows therewas a place to set quality level of the recording. I just poked around and found it. I didn't quickly see where the default level is set though. Is that in the backend somewhere? Anyway, thanks for the pointer. Very helpful! Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
