[mythtv-users] Transcoding Questions in 0.12

Dane Kantner webmaster at dddane.com
Fri Oct 24 22:39:47 EDT 2003


> It seems that 3.7gb (1hr) shows compress from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 and become
> 1.1gb.  That's very cool, except that half hour shows that start at 1.8gb
> compress to the same size: 1.1gb.  That seems counter intuitive, and also

Did you test your theory on multiple shows from multiple cable channels?
Maybe the 30 minute show was high action, had lots of noise, or other
things?  Tape the same show twice, one time 30 minutes and see if there is
any size diff?

-d



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