[mythtv-users] PVR500, PCHDTV 3000, and AMD64

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 21:25:30 UTC 2006


On 2/2/06, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> Brad Fuller wrote:
> > R. G. Newbury wrote:
> >>  With the
> >> HD3000 card first, myth grabs one of the PVR500 tuners for LiveTV and
> >> that is much more likely to work.. It is LiveTV which is the bugbear of
> >> using the HD card.
> >>
> > you got that right.
>
> And speaking of PVR500's and HD3000's, has anyone noticed a difference
> in file size for the same program, recorded with the PVR500 and with the
> HD3000?
>
> I grabbed a number of repeats of a one-half hour show about the Volvo
> Ocean Race, from Rogers Sportsnet.
> I got shows on analog cable channel 22 and on digital (but non-HD)
> channel 404. Same program, time-shifted.
> These programs are different sizes!
>
> I'm not at the machine, but IIRC the analog recording was 1.24 G and the
> digital recording was .89G (no transcode, no commercial cutting).
>
> Anyone else seen this?
>
> Geoff
>
>

one is an analog broadcast converted to digital through the 500, the
other is a digital broadcast with the stream directly copied to your
harddrive.

one would expect to see a difference in file sizes.

--
Steve


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