[mythtv-users] PVR-250 - Approximately 2GB/Hr.?

[Robert Tsai]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:34:54PM -0500, Andrew Close wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip/>
> > I didn't knows therewas  a place to set quality level of the
> > recording. I just poked around and found it. I didn't quickly see
> > where the default level is set though. Is that in the backend
> > somewhere?
> > 
> > Anyway, thanks for the pointer. Very helpful!
> 
> if you go to setup/utilities in mythfrontend and then into manage
> recording (maybe tv, i'm doing this from very poor memory ;). you
> should see three or four default recording profiles.  default, high,
> medium, low...  selecting any one of these will walk you through the
> setup screens allowing you to change the bitrate, audio sampling
> rate, and a bunch of other settings. right now on my system i
> believe all the recording profiles are setup the same.  i don't
> remember if that is the default or not.  i haven't touched it yet
> because i haven't figured out what changes will do what to my
> system. :)  but if you're willing to experiment then you can
> increase the quality of your recordings or decrease the size of your
> recordings, etc.  there are always tradeoffs between size and
> quality, but i'm sure you can find a happy medium.

That is correct; all recording profiles will default to the same
values of 2200kbps, etc. MythTV does not come with any sort of
"canned" defaults for high/medium/low-quality recording profiles.

--Rob