[mythtv-users] Is My transcoder not working?

Nicholas Devenish ned20 at sussex.ac.uk
Sat May 29 19:44:14 EDT 2004


How? when I go into recording profiles, it just gives me a list of 
stuff. not asking me to choose one or something. How big should the 
files be?

Xgkkp

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Nicholas Devenish wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> Sounds like  you need to look at your recording profiles.
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