[mythtv-users] Is My transcoder not working?

[Nicholas Devenish]

Hi,

I'm new to mythtv (and linux, for that matter), and I've been setting up 
recording and stuff. Problem is, the files are very large. a five minute 
recording took about half a gigabyte, and even after I went into edit, 
cut some stuff out to test and hit 'x' to transcode, it only shrunk to 
100mb. 100mb for three minutes of video? surely something can't be right 
here.

Also, I know my computer can encode dvd quality divx at about 1.4x 
speed, so why does it have to record to such a raw format??

Some other sizes i've got is 1.43gb for about half an hour (ater 
transcoding again, I think), twice.

Also, I'm recording something, the 'delete' screen says it's about 4gb, 
with my other stuff of 1.6gb, 1.6gb and 0.1gb, and it says I have used 
about 25gb of 30gb on my dedicated partition... something doesn't add up.

Thanks,
   Nick