Todd Bowman wrote: > I've looked at the HW MPEG2 encoders but MPEG2 seems to take up too much > room. I tried using the SW MPEG2 encoding in MythTV and within one day > my 160GB disk was filled. Even though I turned on automatic transcoding > to MPEG4, the recordings just seemed to get ahead of the transcoding. > Once the disk was full, it couldn't transcode any more. Do the HW > encoders produce smaller video files? I don't remember the exact file > size but I think a 2.5 hour program was something like 26GB! (640x480)
Your bitrate must've been set way too high if you were burning through 10 GB/hr. I'm guessing you were recording at somewhere around 20-25 Mb/s, which is insane. I get pretty good quality at about 6 Mb/s (with the video sampled at 480x480), and I've never run out of disk space. (Then again, I also have ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not salesman's gigabytes) across three drives) for video storage.) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
