[mythtv-users] All profiles the same as default?

[Bruce Markey]

Dave Bush wrote:
> Darryl Okahata wrote:
> 
>> Dave Bush <statman at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>     Why don't you try various settings, and decide what you like?
>> Start with 2200 and go up from there (as you're happy with Tivo basic
>> quality, don't go above 4400 (~2-2.5GB/hr) or so, as I think that's
>> somewhat similar to Tivo high quality).
>>  
>>
> Okay - this may be a dumb question, but I assume that you mean that I 
> should be using the MPEG-4 codec instead of the default RTjpeg codec?

That's correct. RTjpeg compresses each frame individually whereas
MPEG-4 compares the frame with the previous one and only needs
to encode the differences so it is much more space efficient.
Also, see the howto section on resolutions:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.3

--  bjm