[mythtv-users] PVR-150 built-in encoder vs transcoding

[Brian Wood]

>
> 22 nov 2006 kl. 04.31 skrev Dewey Smolka:
>
>>
>> What I generally do is record (via PVR 250) at full resolution --
>> giving filesizes of ~2.2 GB per hour. Unless it's something that I
>> know I'll watch either while recording or soon afterwards (like
>> sporting events) the recordings get automatically transcoded (mpeg to
>> nuv), reducing the size to around 750 MB per hour.
>

Of course you could record directly to MPEG-4 either using a frame- 
grabber and a lot of CPU power, or by hardware encoding using the  
Plextor Convert-X.

The Plextor files actually look pretty good. There are some problems  
like needing to transcode to MPEG-2 if you want to burn a DVD, and  
the MediaMVPs not being able to play the files. These problems would  
not affect all users.