[mythtv-users] new stuff to understand

[Michael T. Dean]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 17:53, Robin Gilks wrote:
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>>I would imagine that the 878 card would record with a "disk burn rate" of
>>about 4G per hour (thats what I get) whereas the PVR card, being mpeg2
>>should be a quarter of that (about 1G per hour). By transcoding to mpeg4,
>>that can be further reduced, without loosing much quality, to about 300M
>>per hour. Its all about balancing CPU cycles against diskspace!
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>Actually I see about 2GB per hour recording with a PVR-350 or PVR-250.
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It's all in the bitrate you choose...

http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UserManual_2fTechnicalDetailsAppendix_2fRecordingParameters

Mike